Northern ...

... Mockingbird.
  
High atop a sunflower.

It was downright cold today so we scrapped our plans to go to the West End Fair that's running all this week.  We will try again tomorrow.

Instead I spent some time sorting things out in our sunroom ... which has gotten quite messy.  It would have been good for the Mono Monday theme of chaos ... but I was embarrassed to post a picture. 

I'm actually sorting things out to get ready for a yard sale at a local church that we have signed up for.  It's not until later in September but it's the day after we return from vacation so the work must be done now ... or it won't get done in time.  We have to have everything sorted, priced and ready to go before we leave for vacation.  

Thankfully we didn't spend the entire day in the house going through the things for the yard sale.  We got out for our normal Thursday night "date night" out.  And after having supper at a local steak house we drove to the sunflower field at St. Luke's Hospital campus.  As we were walking through the sunflowers I noticed this beautiful Northern Mockingbird sitting high on top of one of them.  The lighting was perfectly highlighting his/her head.  

Fun fact about the Mockingbird:  The mockingbird's latin name is Mimus polyglottos, which literally translates to “many-tongued mimic.” 

And:  A study released in October 2019 found that, in addition to mimicking the calls of other birds and manmade noises like music and machinery, Northern Mockingbirds have been known to imitate at least 12 different species of North American frogs and toads.