Birds in the Autumn Garden

The humming birds are around and feeding.  There are two of them squabbling over the feeder.  Thie house finch was in the apple tree, which is a fairly long reach for my little 12X lens on the Canon S3 IS.   Seeing a group of birders walking down the street carrying tripods and probably cameras, too; has inspired me to try to capture a few of the the birds in the back yard.  I don't know if I am ambitious enough to carry my tripod around though. 
I have put some apples out in the deer pasture and they are slowly being eaten.  We made a heaped up apple pie today.  There will be roasted chicken and apple pie tonite.  Our Scottish guests have arrived but we have not seen them yet.  They seem to have disappeared.  Have no idea what they have planned for dinner.  They can join us if they want to.. there will be enough to go around.

Glassworks on Mdina, Malta

This is looking through a window into the kilns and furnaces in the working area of the Glass works at Mdina, Malta. They produce some very lovely quality in glass work.

Today, I picked the last of the apples, made one big pie and 3 jars of apple sauce from the ones that were not going to store very long.

We have been having high winds and record amounts of rain on the island recently. The power has been out in many places and some flooding. We have been very fortunate in not suffering any of these things.