Another backyard visitor

This chubby little quail flew into our backyard this morning.

Isn't he a cutie-pie?

He pecked his way around the garden patch for a couple of hours.

This was just the cheery pick-us-up we needed this weekend. I had a bug yesterday, and Alex was bit by it today. We did get out to do a bit of birthday shopping for a certain someone and to go for a walk around the blueberry farm in Bellevue. It was another beautiful fall day.

This evening we had a bake-athon. We cooked our largest pumpkin and then turned the flesh into puree for pies and pumpkin butter. Then, we made pizza dough (and later pizza for dinner). Next, we mixed up a couple of loaves of cranberry-orange-nut bread, and we ended by baking a French-topped apple-pear pie. The kitchen smelled incredible! Now, about all those dishes...