catandturtle

They say that you learn something new every day. Today’s lesson was that cardinals chew with their mouths open!

Cardinal

Squirt had an exciting day watching over the backyard from his grill today. We had two new visitors — a Sleepy Orange butterfly and a female Brown-Headed Cowbird. We also realized that our two finches are actually at least four finches. It was a good day to be a porch cat!

House finches

More roses! I just can’t resist the temptation to take lots of pictures of my new bed. Here are all the first blooms of the roses that I planted bareroot just about six weeks ago.

First floribunda blooms