Gretchen with her banana trees.
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Yearly Archives: 2018
Pond, Dogs, Sycamore 2018-10-04
Feed Us 2018-10-31
Next to a feeder on the pooch deck, they’re hinting at something.
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Fifty Degrees 2018-10-28
Fall has fallen.
Or maybe the thermometer is broken.
But there are brown oak leaves everywhere.
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Want a kitten? 2018-09-26
It doesn’t really belong in the corn trailer, where Gretchen found it.
The dogs would love for us to keep it here, but Continue reading
Dog treed cat 2018-08-29
Fresh okra 2018-08-10
Picked this morning (2018-08-10), plus a previous day’s pickings: fresh okra.
Yellow Dog and Brown Dog helped.
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Passion Fruit 2018-07-16
Halberdleaf Rosemallow 2018-07-16
Each bloom last only one day, but you can see another coming along.
Hibiscus laevis All. Halberdleaf Rosemallow, Rosemallow, Halberdleaf hibiscus, Scarlet rose mallow, Swamp mallow, Swamp rosemallow.
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Wren nest inside screened porch
Some weeks back we saw a pair of Carolina wrens (Thryothorus ludovicianus) flitting about inside our screened porch. We thought they had wandered in and were trying to get out. But soon it became obvious they knew not one but two ways in and out.
Then we noticed they had built a nest in the pot of a hanging plant. That seemed silly, and they seemed to have abandoned that quest.
But today I saw the mama wren going in that nest. And here’s what’s inside the nest:
