Painting

I'm trying to stay productive so I don't got crazy while I sit around and wait for the baby to come. So the last few days I've been painting a bit. I put the watercolors away awhile ago and I can't quite remember why. But I've been really enjoying them lately - they are easy to do in the living room floor, and they help me be patient because of all the layering. Anyway, here's what I've been doing:

I wanted to do a painting for the baby, something we could point at and say, "duck. Duck." So that's where the first no good still life came from.



After the first one, I remembered how much I like painting objects on our coffee table (it has a nice glass top, so you get great shadows and reflections), so I set this one up next. I love this little fitonia plant we got earlier this year because it droops so noticeably when it needs water, and then perks right up after you water it. The little bird in the plant is a hollow ceramic thing with a porous cone on the bottom that slowly waters the plant for you (do these things have a name?). John got it for my birthday because I just love old ceramic things.

Hummingbirds

This is another post my family should appreciate. I have two hummingbird feeders at my house. The hummingbirds are coming to our house in droves. I brought one in to refill the other day, and the one remaining one was bombarded with birds. I think the most we saw at one time was seven. I tried so hard to catch a bunch of them at the feeder at once, and this is my best shot. There are five (four sitting on the feeder and one hovering a little to the right). I was thinking I should set up my tripod and try to get a nice shot like Uncle Richard did at Granny's house. The other thing about the hummingbirds that seems strange to me is that they don't seem to be afraid of us. They buzz right past us when we're outside and they aren't scared off easily. Is that normal?