"Birds of a feather flock together"

Meaning

Those of similar taste congregate in groups.

Origin

Proverbial. Known by the late 16th century and recorded by Philemon Holland, in a translation of Livy's Romane historie, 1600, in its original form:

"As commonly birds of a feather will flye together." 

I found two nests while walking in my front yard yesterday afternoon.

This one was neat:

 

- & this one was messy:

 

What kind of nest would you have?

 

Here you can see my son's (early) 14th birthday present (not my idea):

He's already learnt how to do burn outs & jumps.

 

Obviously that doesn't work here, so I've put it at the bottom of my right column, check it out!

I saw a butterfly in my front garden the other day which I have never seen before:

See how she casually looked at me while sucking nectar?!  I was following her around with the camera & she kept flitting from lantana flower to lantana flower, & even did a close fly past of my face at one stage, too.

Have you ever seen this kind of butterfly?

My parents are staying with us this week.  Whenever we get together, Mum & I play Scrabble.

Today, I won.

I used up all my tiles, used a Q, & had a double word score - 90 points, all up! 

M I S Q U O T E   (the E was already there)

 

My husband likes to drop in to the "King of Knives" shop, when we're in a nearby city.  We have a range of Furi knives from there, thanks to him, and his early birthday present is a very large Scanpan titanium wok!

We had stir fry two nights running after this purchase, courtesy of his enthusiastic culinary skills:

 

 

This stir fry was chicken, ginger, and sesame, with lots of vegetables including cherry tomatoes, carrot, broccoli, and zucchini - very tasty.

See what I bought for myself, at last:

As you can see, it's a Yamaha.  It's only had one owner & was originally purchased in 1991.  I'm happy.  :-)

I wish I'd always had a piano, well, at least since I became a mother.  I wish my children grew up with a piano in their home, as I did.

I learnt  piano for about four years as a child, competed in eisteddfods and took examinations.  My children instead learnt violin (which fascinated me as a child) and our son switched to guitar, now plays electric guitar really well & wants to be in a band soon - he just had a gig tonight, in fact.

 

 

In case you're curious as to how the two paintings were framed, here is a (bad) photo of "Tea or Coffee?":

 

 

 

Here is the Coffee half:

These two are framed together, separated only by the mat, in a "Coffee and Tea" art exhibition, now.

Together they are called "Tea or Coffee?".  They're in acrylics on 300gsm watercolour paper (good & thick), matted & framed.  Altogether $390 (Australian dollars).

You may see them larger in my gallery, see link to the left.