What's Your View?

My favorite summer view so far this season is my backyard. NOT because it's a lovely backyard (because it really isn't at all). NOT because it's kept neat (because it's not). NOT because I enjoy looking at the garden (though I do enjoy that.) NOT because it's fun to watch Tucker lay in wait to try and catch a squirrel or ten (though that really is fun). NOT because I derive great pleasure from watching the birds at the feeders and taking their picture in the birdbath (though I really do get a kick out of this).

Nope. It's not because of any of those things. It's because I can see out of the kitchen window on the back of the house!

Thaaat's right. I've cleaned the kitchen window. WooHoo!

I love that my kitchen sink has a window above. I love even more that that window is clean now.

I can see the squash, zucchini and eggplant---

I can see some black-eyed Susan's---

I can see some tomatoes---

I can see a bag of cedar chips that I have to put down whenever the rain stops. I'm not complaining about the rain- the garden LOVES it.

And, if I stretch to the right, I can see the birdbath---

Today, nearly one week later, I cleaned the windows in my office. I would have cleaned them sooner but the rain has been torrential for quite some time. Days as a matter of fact.

I can see many things from these windows too---

My flowers---

And the birdbath...I could also see that it needed cleaning...

One of my twirly thingys---

I could see that my squash that was perfectly healthy last weekend are now dead...dang it...at least the eggplant is still hanging in there...

I could see that something had disturbed the bird feeder---

So I went out and cleaned the birdbath and righted the bird feeder---

And came back inside where I saw the bird feeder disrupt-or---

Chowing down on some bird seed---

The rain soon returned---

 After which this little guy showed up---

I don't enjoy washing windows one little bit. But I sure do enjoy those windows after the fact.

What's outside your windows?