It is a beautiful day outside and our week looks to keep this up. I lost a dear horse yesterday and my feelings are very labile right now but your writing lifted me. One of my favorite relatives is driving in to stay with us for a while. He is my husbands 80 year old cousin. He loves to fish and he loves the BIG bass in our big pond. He will fish away the days and at night he and I will talk music, mostly share opera music. The ups and downs of life come quicker these days. Is it age? Must be, something else to get used to. 
Your daughter has a beautiful voice. I really enjoyed that, thank you. My sons are musicians too but they play jazz. I am classical. I tend to land more along wanting to listen to the music your daughter is singing here. We all need so much more of that in our lives.
I had made a promise to myself to sit quietly by my feeders and try to get a chickadee to land and feed from my hand. I came close but never made it. Then life tossed me around a bit and I have never gone back out to try it.
Sadly chickadees, one of my favorites also, were not really here this year. Our bird population has tumbled. I did see 3 or 4 but they used to be everywhere. Very few birds on our farm that has been let go in large areas for nature to survive. Honey bees finally on the asters but none until now. Anyway...my point was to thank you again for your lovely picture and thank you for reminding me that I could try this again. I enjoyed it a lot, so quiet and wonderful with the birds. Next year I will make a point to try again. The one thing I had more than ever was hummingbirds. I almost had them landing on me each morning as I refilled their feeders. What a crew I had! Life is beautiful if you let it be but there are things that need tending so we give up a little peace to hopefully regain more peace. 
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