I didn’t get a picture of the first ripened tomato our backyard garden produced to perfection a couple days ago, but on the kitchen window sill last night I found our second that Susan had harvested that afternoon and so snapped it this a.m.: It’s about the size of a golf ball and a half. …
Sigh. I love figs. I mean I LOVE figs. Maybe not 81 of them, like the pile pictured here that I picked up around the patio this morning, but a few good fresh, ripened figs from a tree is a joy to me. Num num num. Num. The fig trees in our our backyard produce …
(click to triplify) To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee . . . Emily Dickinson
Thirteen days after planting the sunflower seeds provided me as part of my participation in the Great Sunflower Project, I finally watered me some seedlings instead of bare soil! Woo-hoo!
But when it came to this backyard encounter with a wonderfully aggressive jumping spider this afternoon, what I lacked in talking points I hope I made up for in enthusiasm:
When it comes to finding things in the backyard sometimes I don’t even have to try. Such was the case of this penny, found on the ground near the hammock while raking leaves in the backyard this morning. The top two thumbnails (all clickable) are the “before” shots of the front and back and the …
Susan noticed it sometime over the weekend, but I discovered the fungus among us in my morning spritzing of the side yard this morning. Having popped up between a couple walkway bricks it’s almost half the size of one… sucker’s huge (click to quadrify):