Cutie Fuzzballs having lessons ...

Hello!

I usually like to have visited everyone before I post something new, but, well, I haven't 💐

There are so many lovely blogfriends out there, all with such interesting posts to read... and I like to take my time with each one so, currently, I'm a week behind in my visiting/reading - but I eventually catch up 👓 😊 👓

The chicks are growing and we take weekly photos of their progress and this morning I couldn't resist sharing two new learning sessions in their little lives:

"The Dust Bath"

Chookie shows her chicks how to dig a nice hole in a sunny spot where the dirt/dust has warmed up.

Then she shows them how to wiggle and fluff the dirt up amongst her feathers.
One chick is keen to get in beside Mumma and have a go.  The other chick is .... "what???  no way!!"

"Here we go, jump in"

"That's the way" says Mumma.  One chick is thoroughly enjoying herself (we're pretty sure they're both hens).
The other chick is "I can't believe you want us to roll around in ..... dirt!!"

... and so the Dust Bath lesson ends - for the day.  It all happens again the next day, and the next, and so on!

"Perching"

This is Chookie's favourite perching spot... on top of the compost heap.
She can look through the wire and see what we're up to in the backyard.

So, it was no surprise to see her giving her chicks a 'perching' lesson at this spot...  but what we were surprised at was that it was happening already!  They're only 4 weeks old and their little winglets must have flapped like crazy to get up that high:

Perching is something they both love!

~ Thanks for popping by.

I hope these cutie pair of fuzzballs make you smile ~

Windflowers ~ Floral Bliss

Hello!

Posting with some pretties this morning... Japanese Anenomes:

When out in the garden, they flutter gently in the breeze and remind me of graceful ballerinas:

taking a bow .... applause for that pretty ballerina in pink! 

These photos are from a bunch I picked a couple of years ago from Mum's garden:

and then photographed them like crazy indoors:

I love everything about them, right down to their spent middles:

Wouldn't you have thought I'd have graced them with a better vase!
Never mind, they're so beautiful that they even pretty up an apple cider bottle... clever little windflowers 😊

Linking to Riitta's Floral Bliss.

Why not pop over and see what's happening, you'll be made so welcome: