Aren’t they adorable, if only in an alien sort of way? These are the babies who live just over our front door. I’d been a little worried about how affective an incubator the mama phoebe had been able to be, flying away as she had to every time we went in or out our door. But fine enough, I guess, cause I noticed these little mouths this afternoon.

The last few days (weeks?) have been crazy here (more on that later), and the next few days (weeks?) will be crazy, too. For all of you who read this blog as a break from your hectic lives, I feel ya. It turns out Headquarters and my fellow residents here provide me with enough little surprises and updates to pull me out of myself and life’s craziness for moments of simple pleasures, too.