Bird on a wire

The hummingbirds are here. We put up three feeders, although are a little embarrassed about the red food coloring in the supposed "nectar". Anyone know of good hummingbird juice that has a natural red?

Watched them when resting between digs. Three things I haven't really noticed as much before. They stop and rest a lot. They sing (or talk). And they dart up and hover directly over the center of the garden and then look north, east, south, west as if surveying the area before heading up to the top branches of a larger border tree.

Today was a phenomenal day. Started out early morning with one planted bed, one prepared, and one in the middle of digging. By day end three planted. AND THEN...we discovered our corn, beets and peas had all sprouted. Strong (inch tall), healthy, happy sprouts. Will wax philosophical about this soon. Too tired.

Perhaps a pictorial post.

ps...Lisa says she is going to post soon.

michael, from a barefoot garden