davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2023

[davidd]

So do your hummingbirds stay throughout the blooming season then? 

No hawkmoths here. Or very few.

The hummingbird situation has been odd. Three years ago there were so many, like dozens, that I put up three feeders and was filling them twice a day or more.

Then a drought kicked in, and the hummingbird count dropped to a few. And then to none by the end of last summer.

This past winter the snow was back, with a massive snowpack, and the spring was cool and wet. By mid-spring there were at least a dozen hummers flitting around.

I don't know what happened after that. They all left. All but two. From late spring until yesterday there have been two hummingbirds. That's it. Two.

Yesterday afternoon, a third one showed up.

I don't know if the spring was too cold (cooler than usual through June, especially at night) for nesting, or what, but the hummingbirds all left again this season, even though the weather is back to normal and there are plenty of wildflowers.

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A Doll A Day 2023 - 24 July

Giochi Preziosi & MGA Toys present: Hi Glamm Kit in – YUCCA! The Musical!

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Meh... sorry! I'm still playing catch-up... but I think I'm done after this batch, finally, maybe. It's taken me a while to edit pics and to research captions.

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10 July – Do you remember that "Wishing Well" poem from a couple of months ago?

Bratz Action Heroez Yasmin does!

But in case you don't, because, like, it was posted on a different forum, here ya go:

I took my wish to the wishing well
But someone had filled it in
With dirt and rocks that left no room
For wishes to fit in.

I took some seeds to the wishing well
And planted dandelions.
I watered them and watched them grow
Sun yellow, bright, they shined.

I took a flow'r from the wishing well
Bright yellow turned to white.
Puff! On a thousand fairy seeds
My wishes all took flight!

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11 July – Bratz Action Heroez Cloe has No Idea what these Flowers Are... or Were!

And Neither do I! (Maybe something from the Aster family?)

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12 July – Bratz Action Heroez Cloe challenges you to say

"Yellow Rubber Rabbitbrush" three times... fast!

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13 July – Phoebe the Penstemaniac!

Members of the American Penstemon Society... and there is such an organization... call themselves 'Penstemaniacs.' There are over a hundred varieties of wild Penstemon flowers -- also called Beardtongues -- found in the US state of Utah.

https://penstemons.org/images/newsletter...spring.pdf

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14 July – Action Heroez Shira says: "When I want your o-PINYON, I'll ask for it!"

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15 July – Bratz Mini Action Heroez Among the Field Bindweed Flowers

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