Sometimes they look pretty when the sun catches the stamen just right...
I'm afraid of bees. But I've learned, finally, that these ones don't care about me at all. As long as I don't get between them and their food..... I don't have to run away squeeking, I can stay and watch.
Even dead and dried, these alliums are interesting.
Golden Marguerite is another great dye plant. I need to start collecting the dead heads. Apparently you can freeze them without ruining the dyestuff.
Darrell, our friend the blacksmith, made this very pretty bird feeder for us. Darrell's work can be found at Wareham Forge - http://www.warehamforge.ca - or if you want to talk to him in person, he'll be selling his stuff at the Goderich Celtic Roots Festival on August 8 - 10th.
The feeder on the right is many times more popular, but these little creatures are very messy eaters and leave much of it on the ground. The squirrels are very happy campers.
By the by... if you happen to be a bird watcher, please let me know what kind of visitors I'm getting?
I'm pretty sure that this is a golden finch.....
But this fellow.... I have no idea. He's much larger, in the same size class as a blue jay (they are not hard to identify!) and prefers the sunflower seeds.
Just to round things out.... remember that lovely peachy colour from the second soaking of woad leaves? Here it is carded and fluffy....
And spun.
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First set of birds are female goldfinches, bright yellow bird a male goldfink.Third bird is probablu a brown-headed cowbird.
http://www.audubon.org/bird/research/
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the peachy colour from the woad leaves is very pretty. I got a browny pink colour, not nearly as nice as what you got.
Very nice results! What did you use for mordant??
Love all the bird photos...not sure who that brown bird is...he looks to be in the grackel family, but the color is all wrong!
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