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 …
I’m sick of that handheld representative mass of honeybee doom sitting at the top of this blog, so now I’ve bumped it down with one of some happier times last May at a Matilija poppy at Vista Hermosa Park (click it for the bigger picture):
This time of year I can usually count on finding the occasional one maybe two dead bees in the vicinity of the patio table, but this morning the number of corpses (11 seen below, 17 total) concentrated in such a small area represented a cataclysmic and enigmatic die-off as far as our backyard is concerned: …
It’s orb weaver season. And while our front, back and side yards have become home to a bunch of average-sized specimens of the latest generation, I found the biggest of the bunch — easily with a two-inch leg span — and thankfully not strung across any walking path. Instead this magnificent, amazing creature’s web was …
Of our little six-pack of sunflowers grown and/or growing on the south side of the house, the western-most one bloomed the biggest and brightest (click it for the bigger picture):
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 …
Finally. It took a couple days for my first (and so far only) Great Sunflower Project bloom to get the attention of the local bees, but today they finally came a calling and made up for lost time while I had my camera set up beside it. You’ll have to forgive me for remaining so …