Surprise visit from new feathered friends . . .

We absolutely love living in the country! This morning, while we were eating our cereal, I noticed movement in my peripheral vision. I looked out the window and there it was . . . 

. . . a wild turkey strolling up the hill! We haven't seen a turkey since we moved here a year ago and she seemed to have not a care in the world. She was alone . . . she must have been lost because it seems they normally travel in flocks of a half-dozen or so.

Then, later on in the day, Ken and I were sitting in the living room chatting and out of the blue we heard a "tap-tap-tap" . . . we both turned toward the sliding glass door and noticed . . .

. . . a Road Runner looking at its reflection on the glass door. Hanging from its mouth dangled a freshly caught lizard that he seemed mighty proud of. He flew up to the deck railing where Ken snapped this picture. But the funniest thing about this little guy is that he came back about four times during the next couple hours, with the lizard in his mouth and notifying us of his arrival with the same "tap-tap-tap!"

Life is good!