Our last cold spell is this weekend, the blackberry winter. I got to the Murphy farmers market by 9 this morning to buy a bag of fresh crisp spinach and a huge head of butter crunch lettuce which will last one person two weeks. Fresh greens go quickly and our small market has only two farmers right now. My plan was to walk the river loop after the market but the wind picked up and a cool misty rain changed my mind. I have "empty nest" syndrome again........... I slowly walked over to the nest to check if the babies were still inside the nest and caught this one sitting on the edge. When I came back with my phone it was hiding but I took the picture and as I slowly walked away it jumped out of the box and flapped to the porch floor probably thinking "monster alert!" It hopped around the floor flapping but not becoming airborne. I left it lone so parents could tend to it, took the Toyota and went to Lowe's. Lowe's was so mobbed with mulch and plant shop
