A real mother of a day

Happy Mother’s Day!

It was a quiet one here. I spent most of it out in the backyard again, reading Kaleidotrope submissions and really just enjoying another day of very pleasant weather. Oh, and there was another episode of Supernatural in there, too. Except for the Sunday crossword and Chinese for dinner, it could almost have been yesterday all over again.

Although we weren’t aware of baby birds nesting in the bushes outside the front of the house yesterday, so that’s different, too. A little baby cardinal — that one up above, hopped out of the bush and into the garage, all the way to the back door. We had to shoo it out gently with a broom to reunite it with its parents, who have been swooping back and forth all day, all but ready to attack anyone who comes near. (They’re cardinals, so it’s not exactly Alfred Hitchcock territory here, but this is clearly not a mama who wants anyone near her chicks.)