I have two face-palming habits as a greenthumber. One: I will pretty much plunk any bit of severed succulent into a patch of dirt to see if it’ll grow (and most of the time, it will). And two: I will plant found seeds in pots in no organized manner and without making any record. Illustrating …
A few days ago, in reaching up to pull down some low hanging dead branches of a backyard tree, this marvelous thing came with them (click it for the bigger picture): Camouflaged, I hadn’t known it existed just above my head — and by the looks of it probably for a long time, too. It …
That’s how much space this magnificent orb weaver above our backyard would span — maybe even a silva dolla. It’s so big, notice how the abdomen is out of focus compared to the legs (click to anachrophobify):
Just fine, thanks! Remember when it looked like this on August 20? And then like this on September 22? Well it’s continuing its march toward backyard domination and today it looks like this: Even better there’s a bunch of fine specimens of butternut aka “not a pumpkin” squash growing strong, including the leader of the …
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Yeah so… as you can see things are progressing quite nicely within the confines of the backyard pumpkin patch, I first (and last) reported on at its very beginning August 20. Ten of the 14 seeds planted have risen. Except… I didn’t plant pumpkins. Apparently I planted butternut squash, instead. I make that admission based …
The best gift I ever got Susan was an electric tiller that she wanted one Christmas several years ago. She’s not used it once, but I’ve used it on several occasions to reinvigorate various stale patches of earth in the back and side yards. Today was the latest example, with about 20 square feet of …
A small butterfly of unknown species, landed and less than a couple tenths of a second later, aloft (click them for the bigger pictures):