Bluebird

All of a sudden Oregon turned on it's Summer and did so pretty much overnight. We went from 65 to 76 to 85F in the blink of an eye!
Many plants have reacted by pushing their buds up and out and exploding into flowers everywhere you look ...

             

                                                                               

Our Blueberry bushes are covered in flowers, it's going to be a bumper crop this year:

Birds have gone into a frenzy of defending territory, finding mates and building nests.

Point in case, look what happens when you don't use your bicycle for a couple of days:

It's a Robin's nest and although she'll fly up every-time we pass too close, she keeps coming back and seems persistent in wanting to raise a brood in that basket .. oh, well, I guess I won't be using that bike for a while.
(13-17 days until they hatch and 13 days until they fly out)

The male Goldfinches have changed their drab olive plumage into a bright yellow outfit, trying to impress the girls :                                                   

                        

Not much else is happening at the moment other than that halfway the week we celebrated my birthday! Another lap around the sun as they say .. that makes 62 of such laps, gosh .. how's that possible?

My dutch family send me a beautiful bouquet of flowers and a box of chocolates!

We went for a nice dinner to a new Indian restaurant we hadn't been yet (forgot to take pictures which is what a 62 year old brain does to you) and enjoyed some coffee on the patio at home afterwards ...  

It's light until after 8pm at the moment with temperatures still in the 70s at that time.
All in all a fitting end to a rather perfect birthday!  

This odd summer weather can not last long of course and will come to an end soon if you believe the forecast for the coming week, but we take what we can get for now.
Just being dry for a couple of days has been such a big improvement!