Flowers and birds

This was a not unusually quiet week. Tim our maintenance person continues to paint enclosure hallways in the same linen white as the church. We have lived for sixty years with bare cinder block wall. It's a bright, cheerful and welcome change that complements our artworks better.

Since it's been quiet, I treat you to more of Br. Rob's flower arrangements in the church and to birds I have at times spotted on our grounds. It helps that I often walk to grounds to clock up my daily goal of 10,000 steps. Once I pay attention, there is a lot of birds to surprise and delight me.

Sabbath and flowers. From topo left, clockwise: Br. Robert James reading a book on the porch, while Br. Josép tends to his rose garden; unidentified plume-like flowers; blue hydrangeas; day lilies; unidentified orange flowers gracing the icon of St Benedict.

Since I am not as good at photographing flighty subjects as still flowers, I borrowed pictures from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. I also use their website to identify bird songs. Often you'll hear the song rather than see the bird...

Some of the birds seen on our grounds. From top left, clockwise: red-tailed hawk; pileated wookpecker; northern cardinal; indigo bunting; American goldfinch; red tanager; bald eagle. Credit: Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

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