FRONT PORCH - UPLAND CALIFORNIA

I love walking through Upland and always get a little bit excited when I walk by this house...Not only for the stories I can conjure up about who lives inside but also the stories that are contained in the books in their little lending library outside.

 I always walk with a storyteller.  She sits within my mind and makes up stories.  I'm usually wrong.  If I tell myself a story as i walk by a house that this is where four little girls live with their parents and a dog...  and the family is hoping for a son - ....sure enough as I retrace my steps back to the car and pass the house again the yard is filled with three little boys and two cats out playing in the yard.

In this blue house - there is one child (3-years-old)  residing here and she lives with her aunt until her parents can relocate from North Carolina.  They have sent the child out to California to stay with the aunt until all things are settled and they have moved and are ready to bring her home to their new house ...which is a  few blocks away from this blue house.  The Aunt and the child's mother are starting a business in the food industry - their dream is to be the caterer to many wedding venues from Los Angeles to Palm Springs.   They will be named  "Food Angels" and will wear these outrageously cute purple wings adorned with glitzy blingy beads over a white jumpsuit - while serving their customers.

Just a few birds hanging around recently and Beanie enjoying look out at them.

I'm outside looking in at Beanie while she is inside looking out.

FRONT PORCH, REDLANDS, CALIFORNIA AND BIRDS FROM MAGNOLIA BIRD FARM

Whew!  What a fun day yesterday.  We headed down the mountain to take my good camera in to get fixed and hopefully they can fix it vs. me having to get another one.  I took an older camera with me because I knew we would be going to Magnolia Bird Farm.   This farm is a huge building - so many birds - I thought I had crossed over from death into a heaven of my own making.

I took a lot of photos and was so surprised when in some photos the bars that were so close together like an inch and  a half or a little more - actually disappeared in the photo.  I could only put my camera close to the bars but not inbetween them so I expected to get bars in the photos.  I love how they disappeared and allowed me to take some pretty pictures.

Time was flying because I was having fun (it only drags when one is draggy and depressed and then time s-l-o-w-s down big time). so..... realizing we still had to get to Costco and back up the mountain to pick our grandson up from the bus stop I reluctantly had to leave.  I will definitely go back  at least once a month, maybe by myself next time so i can spend all day at this place.  We didn't get a walk in through the neighborhoods in Redlands which I would have loved to do and will do soon...but I took a few shots from the car.

A lot of people might not like the idea of bird farms.  I don't have an opinion one way or the other except I would like all birds to be free but that isn't the case..... so I'll enjoy them in whatever state they are.  I get very weary of all the negative comments from people on FB or other social media... when they see what they consider an injustice and always have an opinion which I notice is usually rude and snarky.   Someone with a "cause" is a righteousness I prefer to stay away from.  But, if u have an opinion about poor little birds caged and being sold for profit, please use your name and don't reply anonymously.

I have lots more photos with beautifully colored birds that I didn't even know existed.  Can't wait to show more.