Midafternoon, A Visitor Came

From our dining room window, J snapped this picture today while I was in the shower.

The baby bunny lives under the bushes in our neighbor’s front yard.  The sparrow is probably Larry, Curly, or Moe…one of the sparrows that cussed us out when we cut down the bushes in our own front yard last month.

I wonder what they were saying to each other.  Perhaps they were still discussing the tragedy  of the cut bushes.  Perhaps they were gossiping about how J and I need to weed the flower beds that were put in their place.

Or perhaps they were just exchanging hellos and enjoying the weather.

I wish I knew.

JK Rowling Sells Shorts

According to a recent Shelf Awareness story this week…

An 800-word “prequel” to the Harry Potter series that J.K. Rowling wrote on a single sheet of paper sold for £25,000 (US$48,858) during a charity auction held at Waterstone’s flagship London bookstore to benefit English PEN and a dyslexia charity.

Wow! I wonder how much she could get for penning the alphabet on toilet paper while sitting in the crapper?

You can actually read the story online here.  Apparently, it’s part of a competition and other authors also wrote short story cards.  The last line of Rowling’s says it is from a sequel she is NOT working on.