good music

This year has been quite rewarding in terms of music: discovering new bands, seeing them live and of course, questioning their ridiculous names. FYI - this post serves more as a "memory jogger" for me since I tend to (unofficially) have short-term memory loss -- either that or selective memory. Jarrod - have I missed anyone?

Shows at the Earl: Freelance Whales; Bear in Heaven; Beach House; Wild Nothing; Neon Indian; Lost in the Trees; Plants and Animals; Washed Out

Shows at the Masquerade: Delorean; Miike Snow

Shows at the Variety Playhouse: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros; Tyler James

Shows at the Tabernacle: Band of Horses

Shows at the Atlanta Botanical Garden: She & Him

Shows at the Savannah City Center (think that's what it's called!): The Avett Brothers

Shows at Philips Arena: John Mayer

mi gato

cute

Check out these Easter shots of my Grandmother and her great-grandchildren (my cousins!), Kelsey and Hayden. Look how cute they are with their pastel-colored outfits and fluffy bunnies! By the way, love the last one where it looks like Margot is licking Granny's ear. :)

tulips

As our tour of Belgium and the Netherlands came to an end last summer, I purchased a box of USDA-approved tulip bulbs from a cute market inside Amsterdam's airport. The box said "mixed", so to say I was looking forward to planting season would be an understatement. So as winter came along, I planted around 8 or 9 bulbs in a container and waited ever so patiently for spring. Well, here they are and they're not really that mixed. At least I got 2 non-yellow bulbs! FYI - these pics were taken back in March/April.

love this little bird

This is a Red-bellied Woodpecker and it loves our suet feeder. It's abrupt when it swoops in and it doesn't like to be watched, but I've managed to snap a few pics of it along the way. And for the record, these pictures could be of more than one RBW as I have seen two at the feeder at once. Yeah, it was pretty cool but no pics to prove it. :(

snow birds

Who writes about snow birds in May other than the Miami Herald? That's right - people who haven't blogged in 5 months. Below are some of the creatures who visited my bird feeders during our little spouts of snow this past Jan/Feb.

female Cardinal

Yellow-rumped Warbler

a trio of male American Goldfinch

Eastern Towhee

male Hairy Woodpecker

Yellow-rumped Warbler

female American Robin w/a gimpy right leg

male American Goldfinch (bottoms up!)

out of hibernation

Wow. Has it really been 5 months since my last post? The good news is that I have taken a lot of pictures this year, so bear with me as I'm about to string together some random, possibly out-of-chronological-order posts.