A female Ruffed Grouse seen strolling slowly across the grass outside our front door. She’s all in her spring feather finery, and she has an admirer out in the aspen grove. He has been drumming before light for over a week now. We love grouse! They are such little thimble brains.
In the grouse world, this is one hot chick!
I made pizza for lunch today, and now I’m baking an apple bread which has raisins in it, and because I had leftover pineapple from the pizza, I tossed that into the bread for good measure. It smells good, from the cinnamon. It makes great toast, spread with cinnamon icing.