On Being Invisible

I suspected it in my 40's and now that I've spent several years in my 50's I'm convinced of it. I've become invisible. Really. I am not the target audience for new movies. Clothes are not designed with me in mind. The only thing on TV that market to me are the commercials for high cholesterol medicine and that yogurt that Jamie Lee Curtis is hawking. It is an interesting time in my life. I've never been invisible before. It takes a little getting used to.
I have to tell you, though, that being invisible has its advantages. I don't feel the need to fix my hair and put on makeup to go to the grocery store anymore. Think about all the time that saves! I don't change my clothes before going to the mall. Whatever I'm wearing at the house will just have to do at the mall. Sometimes my purse does not match my shoes and I don't feel self conscious about it. I will even wear white after Labor Day and not care! That's an east coast thing.
Being invisible frees me up to enjoy things that maybe I would not have done when I could be seen. I might even wear crocs!

Buzz off!

I have a hummingbird feeder outside my family room door and I can see it when I'm at the computer. I try to make sure there is food in it all the time so the lovely hummingbird family, male and female, get used to it being there and will hang out in the area. The interesting thing about the male is how super protective he is about the food! Here is this large feeder with more juice in it than he could ever possibly drink in a lifetime and all he does every day is hang on a neighboring branch and dive bomb any other hummingbirds that might happen upon the feeder. Scarcity mentality! Really, there is enough to go around...
The other day, he was double teamed by two males. One flew in to distract him and when he flew off to drive the guy away, the second bird flew in and got his fill. They then reversed the dodge and the first fellow got to drink. Very clever. "They're organized, I know it." (Chicken Run, the movie)