Baby Barn Swallow

A pair of barn swallows nested in my stairwell the last couple of
months. They are the proud parents of the baby on the left
in the picture above. They like to swing from my clothesline.

Here is the whole family perched on the neighbor's garage light.

It rained last week, and cleared some of the dust and smoke
out of the air. I saw this mountain from my front porch
for the first time in two or three months.