When Afreen and I went to watch the Men’s National Gymnastics Championships (the finalists get to the Olympics trials!), we saw this baby Northern Mockingbird:

The little one was being carefully watched by its mother, but didn't seem too scared of us: I loved the innocent beauty: Another innocent (er, not always, sometimes she's downright manipulative!) beauty:

I went with D to the car-accessories shop where he was dropping off used engine oil and other stuff, and looked up at the sign on the shop, and had a pleasant surprise:

Have you seen an “e-nest” before, in this electronic age?

Let me close with my favourite subject!