Yellow Heliopsis, red Echinacea, blue Delphinium and red/green leafy branches from a Ninebark bush:
All wildflowers from alongside the road: Pink Joe-Pye-Weed, yellow Goldenrod and Purple Loosestrife:
White Tree Hydrangeas, multicolored Sunflowers and pink and red Yarrow:
Meanwhile, the little hens were living comfortable lives in their coop inside the barn:
They all get along well together and I never see any fighting. They have no rooster, but I sometimes hear crowing coming from their coop. I looked it up and learned that sometimes, in the absence of a rooster, one hen will become more masculine and began crowing:
It was me, and I keep everybody on their toes!
Egg production is way down, which is fine with me. This day I had only two small eggs, one pink and one green. Soon, as we head toward winter, there will be none:
The white fantail pigeons in the adjoining room are multiplying at a fast clip:
This mother had a nest on the floor with a six day old baby:
A nest up on a shelf had two recently hatched babies. The parents are on them so much that I haven't been able to get another photo since this one:
