It looks like the first of our backyard sunflowers (to survive being stealthily beheaded by marauding squirrels who’ve de-budded three of them — the damn varmints!) is juuuuuust about ready to open up. The bud’s been playing peek-a-boo this way for a couple days and I’m hopeful we’re but a day or so away from …
Yesterday at lunch I let Buster out of her hutch for a little backyard R&R (Roam & Recon), and apparently tortoises trigger some sort of allergic reaction in Ranger — located about the head and neck.
There’s still a prevailing sadness that the two chicks in the now abandoned backyard hummingbird nest died not long after hatching, but it’s lessened a bit when observing the nest in the frontyard, now barely able to contain its two chicks now practically as big as their mom who are forced to jostle for position …
The longest day of the year was this past Monday. Sure, it’s the first day of summer, but the summer solstice also signals that the days hence begin to get shorter, shrinking a bit each day and making fall seem like it gets here all the more faster. As you may know I’ve had a …
My previous post trumpeted the arrival of one of the two chicks in the backyard hummingbird nest. As expected the second chick hatched the day after. Today though when I got home from a trip to the office, repeated looks at the nest revealed no mother, and macro shots snapped of the nest’s interior were …
I tried not to be too concerned, but each time throughout yesterday afternoon that I stole glimpses of the frontyard hummingbird nest I didn’t see the mother, and by the time Susan got home from work I had sat for a full 20 minutes at the front porch spotting scope and was fretting over her …
Finally! You don’t have to take my word for it that the sunflower seedlings have sprouted. As you can see from the tiny green things seen in the webcam still above there’s visual evidence as to their existence. As of last count, a pretty amazing 74 78 of the 100 seeds planted in the patch …