Sunset on the Beach

The other day we went out to the beach at Miramar to watch the sunset.  It wasn't as fantastic as it could have been as there weren't too many clouds; but it was still pretty.

Early Morning Visitor

We have a few chickens that live in the streets around our place here, everyone feeds them, who knows if anyone actually owns them. The last few evenings we have noticed that one of them likes to come and hang out on the landing of the stairway up to our apartment.  Last night we noticed that she had decided to roost for the night on the railing there.

We get up fairly early in the morning and it is usually dark when we take our first coffee out onto the patio to drink and watch the sunrise.  This morning the chicken decided to come up onto the patio and check us out.

I was busy getting the garbage ready to go out as it is garbage day, seeing as we have very few bugs up here, we have the door open a lot at this time of year.  I turned around when Roy yelled something and saw the chicken beginning to come inside the apartment to join me.  I like animals, birds, etc.; but didn't particularly want Ms. Chicken inside the apartment.  I shooed her outside thinking she would run away; instead she stood just outside the door, softly chattering to me until I went and got some soda crackers and gave her an early morning snack over on the roof of the landlords house.

After that she began following me around, wherever I walked on the patio she followed.  It was pretty funny, so I turned on the patio lights and took a couple of pictures of her.

She seemed quite happy to have company and kept up a soft chatter with us for quite awhile before she headed downstairs.

A comical beginning to the day.  Hmmm, I wonder if she was trying to tell me the sky was falling???  Maybe we should call her Henny Penny???

Ms.  Chicken AKA Henny Penny