A Very Popular Planter

My husband built me a beautiful lattice planter last spring that we placed in front of the window in my office. Air can still flow freely through the window when I open it, but the neighbors can’t peer at me from their nearby patio. I love it.

I never imagined it would become so popular with the bird-and-beast crowd.  Within days of putting the planter in place, a chipmunk built a home underneath it.

In midsummer it was the crash site of the lost homing pigeon:

The Chickadees think it’s a great place from which to take off and land as they fly around the roof gutters looking for insects:

And every once in awhile I look up at the top of the window and see something staring at me:

I could do without that.