More of my flock

 Some more birds of my flock.

beechnuts

 Its amazing how many beechnuts the beech in my garden has produced this year.
Its in the millions I think...too much to count at least. 
Not all are on the pile yet. many still lying everywhere around
and many more hanging in the tree, ready to fall.

I could plant a huge forest if I had the space and energy to do so.
Anyway it's a great harvest of nuts...what to do with them?

Jacobs sheep and my flock

I love drawing and painting speckled, streaked and spotted birds and animals...they are so awesome and special.

They often remind me of Jacob's sheep. The speckled, dotted, striped and black ones, 
that he had to work hard for.  In their culture those were the misfits the unworthy ones.

(If you read the story in Gen.30. Laban was abusing and cheating on his wages so many times.
The imperfect lambs were probably not worthy, for the yearly sacrificial lambs had to be without spot and wrinkle.Those sheep had the wrong DNA, not perfect.
These could not be sold because of that on the temple market.)

I love my spotted, speckled birds and striped birds and animals..I always see them as my flock.
 

Squiirel

A few days ago, to my great surprise, I noticed a new squirrel in my garden. 
As the wall nut tree of the neighbors is dead, squirrels have no reason anymore to show up in my garden...

No nuts, no squirrels. 

To me he looked like a young squirrel. beautiful dark chestnut color and no ear-tufts, as the ones I had last year. I read that they have no ear-tufts during hot summers. and will grow when its cold for warmer protection of the ears. That sounds logical.
He did not find any nuts..though he was seeking on the same places, as the nuts I had set out former times.
So I put out some nuts again, to invite him back.
He did!
Had my camera in the wrong settings, because of that, all blurry photo's, until I noticed my mistake.
So here is one view of him, cashing one of the nuts.

Cabbage white

 

Many Cabbage white butterflies sitting on the Verbena's.