"A birdie with a yellow bill sat upon my window sill"

So...when I was preparing for my grandma's funeral, I had purchased these really colorful petunias as centerpieces for the tables for the luncheon. I had hoped that people would take them home, but BDILE was the only one who did. So, I ended up with A LOT of the little seedling packs. For Mother's Day, I was given (well, actually I picked them all out, but it WAS my gift from Chief!) two hanging pots and four ground cover roses. We planted the petunias and roses about a week later and then hung the hanging pots on the front porch. They were really pretty, and I loved them.

Soon after, about a month, I thought I saw something in one of the hanging pots. Like feathers or something. I blew it off, and went on my way. About a week later, I noticed that the plants were already dead...the hanging ones...much to my dismay. The ones we planted in the ground were flourishing, but these were gone. I was going to have Chief take them down...but, again, I noticed something in the pot. Feathers. Weird. I told Chief he needed to check it out, but another couple of days went by. I stuck my head out the door one morning to "check the weather" and was startled by the head of a bird in that pot!! It scared me a trifle...but I then realized it was a morning dove! That little thing had made a nest out of my hanging pot!!! These pictures are the babies now hatched and gone. No sign of the mother...or the father, he actually sat in the nest with her a few times. They never made a sound or moved when we were all looking at them wondering what in the world... BDILE took pictures of the mother sitting in the "nest", but I don't have them...I think the babies are beautiful and they were so "fine" with my being out their with my Mom taking pictures of them! It was really cool!!

Now the pots are filled with dirt and dead flowers...I almost do not have the heart to remove them...maybe we will have another family move in!