For this week's Take Three Thursday, I thought I'd share the three purchases we made at the Regal Nurseries in Virgil, Ontario on Friday. We got our first significant snow yesterday (with more on the way tonight!) Although I'm definitely not ready for snow, and there are still LOTS of leaves on some of our trees, I have to admit, the yard looked beautiful covered in the fresh snow. So I pulled on some boots and went out to take these photos.
Tracy spotted this lawn ornament, and we both love it. The bell rings when the wind blows, and there's a red pinecone (covered in snow) to the right of the bell. We've already seen birds perch on the top of the letter J next to the cardinal.
Actually Tracy gets credit for all three purchases. He took me back to see a variety of bird feeders. We liked this one because it has an "arts and craft" look to it that goes with the light on the front of our house, our porch railings, and a wrought-iron hook we purchased this summer that's also in the front yard.
Although we both liked this feeder we couldn't figure out what kind of bird seed would work since there is no cylinder inside the feeder. Turns out there are suet balls, and we just didn't know about them. We have another suet holder that holds a block of suet and had never looked beyond those. They look pretty cute in there.
Turns out the birds like all the feeders. There are now four in front of the kitchen window. Come summer, we'll move some of them to the patio, but we'd never see the birds there in the winter.
