FALL DISPLAYS OF COLOR AT THE LAKE

 The first few pics are of the house, two houses down the road from me, and then when I walked up our road from my house looking down so many of the trees at the lake are gold now.  Then the trees over at Lake Arrowhead by the village had amazing colors.

It's hard to stay home and not take my camera out for a walk.

Are you getting a lot of color in your area?

A SURPRISE VISIT TO THE BIRD FARM IN RIVERSIDE

We were driving to a city down the mountain to have dinner with one of our sons when we got there early and had to waste some time.  We drove up and down this one avenue and realized that we were near the area where the bird farm is that we have visited a few times.

To spend some time while waiting to meet with him I got to enjoy some time there and took a lot of photos so I have "models" to draw when doing my parakeet paintings.

                     perched high and waiting
                     Greenish yellow birds watching
                     human eyes looking

One area of the store had a room where parrots were out in the open sitting on their branches.

It was a nice visit and I was surprised how many "senior citizens" came in there just to interact with the parrots.  

BEAUTIFUL SCRUB JAY

I tried to do a haiku and it escapes me.

Haikus welcome.  I'll put them on my post.

We use to have many scrub jays visit the yard.

Only Stellars' jay come by now.

I FIND QUAILS SO PRETTY

Ever since we have fed feral cats I don't see them anymore.  They are wise enough to move on.

I use to watch them for hours especially when they would bring their 10 young ones around with them.  They would cross the deck outside and the babies would follow.