Nesting Art

Over in Creative Everyday, there is a daily and monthly challenge posted.  For March, the monthly challenge is "nest."  I mulled this around for a while trying to get my muse interested in this theme.  No luck!  Then, I realized that my cyber name swallowcliffs developed from the migrating swallows to the cliffs by our house, where they make these amazing swallow nests!  So, I cropped a picture I have had for a while and thought I would show that to you.  I have to say, the swallows have a special place in my heart.  They arrive on my son's oldest car girl's birthday every May.  The fly over our heads during the summer catching flying insects.  I love seeing the flash of their yellow bellies out our windows and when we are lounging on our decks.  They have a sweet trill too.  In late summer we have fun watching what we call "flight training" for the new hatchlings... it is a very noisy group activity!  All in all, they are very inspiring to me!  Here is what their nests on the cliffs look like.

I actually tried to post just a cropped close up of one of the nests but blogger would not accept it.  I think it has something to do with the settings in PS but since I have no clue how to use PS except in a very fundamental way, who knows, lol.