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Yesterday it was butterflies ... today it's birds   : )   Not rockin' robins though.  I think these little visitors in my photos are a pair of finches.  We have this very small birdbath in what has become our daylily garden.  It is right off the back porch outside our back door & we enjoy watching the birds come for a drink or a bath.  Mr. Finch in pictures 2 & 3 looks a little perturbed at my intrusion into his bathing time, doesn't he ... lol!  

We have several regular visitors to our birdbath.  In addition to Mr. & Mrs. Finch we have 3 sparrows, a humongous robin who just about takes up the entire bath, a blue jay, & sometimes ... sometimes ... a pair of bluebirds.  I love bluebirds!  They are probably my favorite bird.  We've lived here just a tad over 3 years now (this is our 4th summer) & we have seen a pair of bluebirds every now & then.  This year they are visiting more often ... hooray!

John & I didn't go to the daylily show yesterday.  It was just too miserably hot to make the trip   : (   We have had 2 new daylilies bloom this morning though!  This first one is called Look Homeward Angel & the second is called August Frost.  

Yesterday afternoon I finished knitting my "see if you can remember how to knit" dishcloth ... 

& now I am ready to begin my shawl.  I have been looking at shawl patterns for about a month.  I'll find a pattern I think I love but then it becomes apparent to me that there's one little something I don't like.  A pointy edge for example.  I do have a lace shawl I will definitely be making.  It calls for lace weight mohair yarn.  It will be gorgeous but I want something more "everyday" right now. Yesterday I found exactly what I've been seeing in my mind.  The pattern is called Mara & it's thanks to Nina at Between Crosses with Nina that I found it!  (Thank you Nina!)  It will be a perfect everyday shawl & I think it will look lovely in the colorway I will use to knit it!  That's my hope anyway   : )  

And on the stitching front ... last night I picked up my evenweave & my DMC & once again worked on the design that did not lend itself to variegated thread.  I know in yesterday's post I said that I was not going to try the design again anytime soon but my OCD wouldn't let me rest until I conquered it ... lol!  I am now almost finished ... hallelujah!

I wish you all a delightful & productive day! I need to finish-finish something for an exchange & get that ready to mail before the deadline.  Otherwise I don't have a lot planned.  Work on my stitching perhaps ... or maybe start that shawl.  Sounds like a heavenly day to me   : )