I’m going to post some photos of the huge amount of hummers we have now…at least 40 visit the feeders all day long. 
We have the Black-chinned Hummingbird, the Broad-tailed Hummers, Ruby-Throat, Rufous so far!
I’ve tried to get a photo of all of them at once, but it is proving futile.
But still I try
I saw a rainbow …
they always give me a good feeling of…well…
I guess HOPE!
Off to water my plants before the heat sucks us down to nothing. It’s supposed to be 101* today.
Linda
We hit 100* again yesterday…I looked at the long-rang forecast -the next 10 days shows no relief in site.
Please send your thoughts and prayers to all of the grieving families who lost a firefighter in that horrible fire in Arizona…my heart goes out to everyone.
This morning we woke to scattered clouds…which means that the morning starts out a little cooler.
Blade is trying to learn to ride Terry’s unicycle (Terry is multi-talented)…he was suitably astonished at how very difficult it is to balance yourself and GO FORWARD. That is Kelly, Blade’s Daddy, helping Blade.
I still have the 6 hummers (three pair) at my feeders. I had wondered if I would get more, but the territories seem to be set now.
The Orioles have their own feeders (now) so they are not interested in the hummer feeders. 
I haven’t been able to get anymore photos of them as they seem to be shyer than the hummers.
Once more we had almost a rainbow as the storms played out in the heavens, nothing dropping to the earth since the air is so hot.
Have a good Tuesday everyone, I must get back outside before the heat sucks my energy flat!
Hugs,
Linda
Still in the blast furnace stage of heat — 105* yesterday.
By 8 in the morning we were roasting, but I didn’t turn on the swamp cooler until 9:00 a.m. I was trying to keep as much natural air in the house as possible. After that we just couldn’t do it.
There are lots of fires around us, one is up by the Silver Jack Reservoir near Cimaron. I would say, maybe 30 miles from Montrose. If memory serves me right it was lighting started.
You are looking at all the smoke around us.
I wish the forestry service (or whoever makes the decisions) would cut down all the dead and dying trees. They really need to get rid off all the fuel for those fires.
When we went to Yellowstone last fall the forests there were clean…nothing dead or in a dying stage. I saw new trees growing in lighting started fire burns, which was really nice to see.
It isn’t just humans that loose their homes or perish in these nasty fires animals do also and then many times they lose their lives.
When I was a child the lumber jacks would find a disease tree — go get the forest service ranger, show him the tree…it was marked…then the loggers could come back in and remove the tree, put it in a separate pile, tests were run on the tree to see why it was sick and what to do about it, then the tree was headed to the mill.
That doesn’t seem to be the case now. It looks like the trees are allowed to die so the bug or disease finishes off the tree — jumps to another tree and proceeded to decimate all of the lovely old trees setting up perfect fuel for a fire.
In talking to a ranger a while back and relating what I just said, he told me that the idea (I may get this a little off) is to let the forest take care of itself —so to speak. If one species dies then the fire will clean the land so new can grow. That maybe so, but watching these lovely old trees (here in Colorado it takes a long, long, long time for a tree to grow) die is really sad to me. (If any ranger or forest manager is reading this maybe you could leave us a comment so we can understand—understanding often helps.)
Anyway, the following is an older photo of where the Silver Jack Reservoir resides…beautiful country up there and extremely rugged.
We had a slight rainfall last night. Really nothing to speak of lots of wind and a few splatters then it blew on leaving us behind.
But it left us a touch of a rainbow! My first of the summer!
Well the day is waiting and I must get out there and get my watering done before the horrendous heat saps me and everything else.
Hugs,
Linda
This looks like a repeat of the last post, but really it isn’t. The day clouded up in the afternoon and then we saw showers playing across the Uncompahgre Plateau.
We had been sweltering in the middle of the corn field hoping some clouds would come in from somewhere.
When they did they blocked the sun which cooled us down, even if the rain stayed far away.
Then the clouds cleared of the moisture
And a little wind sprung up pushing the moisture and the cooling clouds in a different direction, leaving behind
a delightful couple of rainbows!
A gift from above….clouds, moisture, the heat from the sun and the corn blocked, and the gift of promise and hope!
Priceless!
Linda
Everything and every animal is looking rich and fat
The corn is filling out
Even though the heat has returned, I really don’t mind. I love spring, summer and fall. All parts of each season.
The rains have left for a spell, but just before they left a rainbow landed in the pinto bean field.
All is right with my world.
Have a wonderful Sunday, everyone!
Linda
We were lucky, the weather held until we got the hay in. Terry stacked it in a whole other spot so it won’t get mixed up in the really good hay.
Since we only had the irrigation to do and Terry needed a part for one of the tractors we took off for Rocky Ford, Colorado. (The home of the wonderful cantalope—–and great tractor and combine salvage yards).
Blue Mesa Dam was beautiful
This is where we get our irrigation water, so seeing if full is wonderful!
It was fuller than we’ve seen in a long, long time.
The shopping center was full of all sorts of goodies
So much to chose from
In the end the perfect part was there. And for a really nice price.
Home again.
Along the way I was given a gift also
Pretty Cool.
We got back to a couple of really big, fast moving rain storms. Everything is rich and green, including the weeds.
So I guess you know what I’ll be doing today. 🙂
Thanks for stopping by and leaving comments. I plan on getting around to everyone’s blog soon and hope to get all my comments answered today!
Linda
It rained last night
My yard is beautiful and green, the dust is settled and the drying alfalfa is wet. Just one more day in the heat and then a day to bale and haul and it could rain.
70% chance for the rest of the day and night today, Tuesday with more storms for Wednesday.
I still love the rainbows the storms produce.
Linda
We had a really nice Easter, lots of good food, 140 eggs to find (in groups of 3) and yummy desserts.
It was cold and rainy. About 4 o’clock the clouds parted and let the sunshine through, with it came this delightful rainbow
The ends were miles and miles apart.
An Easter Rainbow…how Cool!
Linda
I still saw a Rainbow!
Linda
I think my favorite thing about summer …are the rainbows. This is my first time to join the Sunday Stills challenge. If anyone visiting would like to join just go here and follow the directions.
Linda
