CT Blue

My wife tentatively agreed to do weekly gardening posts, but she chickened out, so we agreed that we would put up pictures on weekends to show the gardens progress. The thumbnails below are part of a new WordPress feature called “gallery”. If you click on any image you get an enlargement to about 640 pixels wide. If you click on that enlargement, you should get one that is full size.

I’m still working out the kinks. The last three pictures depict some birds to which I was able to get relatively close. The first two are pictures of a brown thrasher. My wife preferred the first picture, while I liked the second, so I decided to put them both up. If there are any bird fanciers who can identify the last picture I’d be interested in hearing from them. It was sitting on a thin branch that is extending out from a rose bush, though I think it’s some sort of vine. When I first saw it I wasn’t even sure it was a bird. It couldn’t have been more than an inch and a half long. I took the picture with a telephoto lens, fully extended, and cropped the resulting picture real close. I think it may be some sort of hummingbird.

UPDATE: I am reliably informed that the mystery bird is a ruby throated hummingbird.