Good morning. That's an old steel clothes line pole. It was here when we bought the place back in '03. I moved it from its original spot and use it as a pullup bar now.

I took this picture at dusk last night. It was darker than the picture shows.

Before I started my pullups Sophia (13 yrs. old) said to me, "Hey Dad, do you want to see a hummingbird nest."

"Sure," I said.

She and Hayden (16 yrs. old) were doing something in the shed a few feet away.

She said it's hard to see. You can mistake it for a pine cone which are currently maturing on the branches of the red pine tree directly above the bar.

She took a few different angles and said, "There it is. If you step over here you can see it."

As we got positioned we heard the vibration of hummingbird wings. A few seconds later there she was. She floated into her nest that was barely as big as a pine cone.

I couldn't believe it. There, maybe 8 feet above me, invisible until now, was the hummingbird that has been sitting in her nest watching me do pullups and hangs since she built it. An egg of hers can't be bigger than a marble. I don't know how she'd fit in there otherwise.

That made my evening. I had just returned from planting lance leafed coreopsis along the ditch of County E and watering plugs to help them through the extreme heat we're in.

Having my daughter make visible the invisible, in this case the hummingbird, was just what I need after 6 days of driveness delivering mail and packages in the July heat.

I hope you have a great Sunday!

#gm #coffeechain