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10/7/23 - Hoop Coop and some of the chickens (black & whites are Dominiques, browns are Speckled Sussex)
A friend of mine made this from a couple of my father's shirts, as a way to remember him after he passed away.
About 1947, my great grandmother Clara (right), my grandmother Mildred (left), my aunt Norma (seated), and my cousin John
1972ish - me and my cat Sam in front of some of my mother's zinnias.
1965
My granddaughters!
Debbie
Merry Christmas
11/10/23 - After
11/10/23 - Before
10/14/23 - View from the back of my property
11/5/23 - Second coat of stain is dry, steps are ready for winter.
10/25/23 - the entire flock in one photo, go figure!
10/27/23 - Collards and loose leaf lettuce
10/27/23 - Abigail
10/21/23 Turnips and carrots
11/1/23 - Screenshot of LT error with Gallery function
10/31/22 - Willet at Topsail Island, NC
Size comparison of large store-bought eggs and bantam eggs
8/25/23 Dominique bantam pullets/hens, 18 weeks old
082623 Speckled Sussex bantams at 6 months old
5/5/23 - Planted marigolds between the peppers
4/29/23 - Raised bed gardens with volunteer watermelons (foreground) and bush wax and green beans in the back
4/29/23 - Bantam Dominique chicks, 2 weeks old
4/29/23 - Raised beds with tomatoes, green peppers, and Summer squash.
4/24/23 - Firstfruits!
4/24/23 - Dominique chicks (3 of 6), just shy of 2 weeks old
4/24/23 - Bush beans
4/24/23 - Tomatoes
3/31/23 - Raised beds #2 and #3 after being topped off with humus from the compost pile.
3/27/23
3/28/23 - Four weeks old
3/16/23 - Chicks going Walkabout
3/17/23 - Adding composted leaves/grass to the new raised beds
3/11/23 - Chicks are growing fast!
3/4/23 - Two more raised beds being set up, chicken hoop coop is in the background.
3/5/23 - I call this chick "Blondie", don't know if it is male or female yet.
3/4/23 - Chicks are five days old!
2/19/23 Almost done!
1/29/23 - Hoop Coop (in progress)
1/29/23 - Progress on the hoop coop
1/29/23 - Sprouted rutabaga tops added to the garden, an experiment.
1/4/23 - Cattle panels in yard
Perfect
My granddaughters - Christmas 2022
From Charlotte's Web, picture by Garth Williams
June page from When the Moon is Full: A Lunar Year by Penny Pollock and Mary Azarian
January page from When the Moon is Full: A Lunar Year by Penny Pollock and Mary Azarian
February page from When the Moon is Full: A Lunar Year by Penny Pollock and Mary Azarian
March page from When the Moon is Full: A Lunar Year by Penny Pollock and Mary Azarian
April page from When the Moon is Full: A Lunar Year by Penny Pollock and Mary Azarian
May page from When the Moon is Full: A Lunar Year by Penny Pollock and Mary Azarian
July page from When the Moon is Full: A Lunar Year by Penny Pollock and Mary Azarian
August page from When the Moon is Full: A Lunar Year by Penny Pollock and Mary Azarian
September page from When the Moon is Full: A Lunar Year by Penny Pollock and Mary Azarian
October page from When the Moon is Full: A Lunar Year by Penny Pollock and Mary Azarian
November page from When the Moon is Full: A Lunar Year by Penny Pollock and Mary Azarian
December page from When the Moon is Full: A Lunar Year by Penny Pollock and Mary Azarian
My dad, 1951
August 2020
1966 - Me and my dad
5/10/22 - Miss Deborah, aka Little Debbie, aka Miss Priss
8/8/22 - Today's harvest
7/18/22 - Blanched, iced, and added to the freezer
Our granddaughters enjoying the dollhouse that we brought with us on our visit - July 2022.
7/13/22 Harvest after being away for 6 days, not including 3 Roma tomatoes which I already gave to my dad
7/1/22 - Day lilies planted by the shed
6/27/22 Green and wax beans
6/19/22 - Probably a Fowler's toad
6/19/22 - Eastern pondhawk dragonfly
6/8/22 - Early Girl tomatoes
6/1/22 - Male box turtle in my yard!
5/19/22 - Wax bush beans are actually POLE beans! I set up an impromptu support using five old tomato stakes and string. Early Girl tomato plant has a 1" fruit. Third-time's-a-charm Blue Lake bush (I…
4/30/22 - tomatoes and wax beans looking good!
4/27/22 - Monarch butterfly caterpillars on the milkweed!
4/24/22 - my hodgepodge garden
4/23/22 - Don't think this one can be resharpened...
4/30/19 - "new" shed, just needs some stain!
Potting bench, assembled on 4/17/22
Perfect!
4/16/22 - Raised bed garden completed and planted! Roma and Early Girl tomatoes, wax and Blue Lake bush beans, carrots, borage, lettuce, and basil.
4/13/22 - Monarch butterfly laying eggs on milkweed plants
4/4/22
4/3/22 - Added branches and dead stalks from last year's Canna lilies (look up "Hugelkultur")
4/3/22 Raised bed is up!
4/2/22 - new wall around Japanese maple
Stepstool like my grandmother's, and cast iron cat like my mom's
Purrfect
Egg Stratta
Medina Spirit wins the Kentucky Derby in 2021
12/11/21 - Deborah, aka "Little Debbie"
Cleo (10/15/21)
This is Moonpie. He's 19 years old but has always inclined to be "different"! Photo taken 10/19/2021
11/21/21 Deborah, aka "Little Debbie". Her mother was a feral who had her kittens in our yard, and forgot one when she moved them to another location. We're kind of glad she did.
A Year With Friends by John Seven and Jana Christy #8
A Year With Friends by John Seven and Jana Christy #9
A Year With Friends by John Seven and Jana Christy #10
A Year With Friends by John Seven and Jana Christy #11
A Year With Friends by John Seven and Jana Christy #12
11/6/21 - Winter container gardens planted with carrots, chard, and snowpeas
10/22/21 - Deborah, aka "Little Debbie" has found the big bed and is sleepy! She's 14 weeks old in this photo.
Back in 2002 my cat Java broke his left front leg in two places. Wearing a cast didn't slow him down much. You can see the top of the cast in this picture.
9/6/21 - Deborah, aka "Little Debbie", during a rare moment of stillness. Cleo the dog is at my feet.
8/29/21 Little Debbie on my shoulder
Meet Deborah, aka "Little Debbie". Her mother was a stray who moved the others but didn't come back for this one. She's about 5 weeks old and I love her to pieces already.
My son and his niece walking back to the car.
8/3/21 - American bison from our visit to The Land Between the Lakes in Kentucky
5/31/21 - Faline eating blueberries in my backyard
7/4/21 - Happy Independence Day from Cleo!
From July FaceTime with my Grands!
5/22/21 - Dragonfly (tbi)
5/26/21 - First Monarch butterfly sighting of the year!
My grandmother, painting.
My two granddaughters, April 2021
4/17/21 - Crescent butterfly
4/18/21 - Toad
4/16/21 Southern Leopard frog, just chillin'
Think About It
January 2021 - Boots taking a break from the cold weather inside a Cat House
Cleo - February 2019
6/7/20 - American Lady butterfly
6/26/20 - Eastern Comma Butterfly (side view to show the "comma")
6/26/20 - Eastern Comma
6/24/20 - Male Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
6/24/20 - Female Black Swallowtail
6/24/20 - Clouded Skipper
6/24/20 - Cabbage White
6/21/20 - Red-banded Hairstreak
6/7/20 - Black racer grabbing one of the Green frogs that lives in my garden. The frog escaped due to my intervention.
5/31/20 - American Lady butterfly on Milkweed blossoms
5/9/20 - First bloom of the year!
5/9/20 - Second pond's wall is completed!
My Water Rabbits, Blackberry and Dandelion (Watership Down reference)
4/11/20 - My "Victory Garden" project, which I started on the spur-of-the-moment. The square planters had been lying fallow for 2-3 years, so I took out the weeds, added more soil and started…
4/11/20 - Red-spotted purple butterfly
4/9/20 - Silver-spotted skipper
4/5/20 - Several hours of work later, the waterfall is running and I've started working on the retaining wall.
4/1/20 - Ponds and Cleo
4/1/20 Pond Update: Pond #1 has been cleaned, all marginal plants (on the shelves) have been repotted in pea gravel and should do better. Spitter (gray heron on left) has been cleaned and reattached.…
Inscription in a book I just purchased online. I wonder if Helen liked the book given to her from her mother?
3/21/20 - Progress getting pond #1 clean, water lilies repotted. Pond #2 is leveled, backfilled, need to work on connecting it to #1...
Big sister reading to little sister (March 2020)
1/31/20 - Eliza is not amused by the photographer
1/31/20 - Eliza
1/29/20 - Eliza meets her big sister Ruthie!
Welcome Eliza Kristine! (born 1/29/20)
Maximum Security
7/9/19 - Saturn IB launch vehicle on display at a rest stop in Alabama
7/11/19 - White (not albino) squirrel, near Birmingham, AL. I saw two at one time, and a neighbor said there's a colony of these squirrels in the area.
7/12/19 - American Lady butterfly on a butterfly bush blossom, rest stop in SC (South Carolina)
7/9/19 Pipevine swallowtail at Land Between the Lakes in Golden Pond, Kentucky
7/9/19 Little Blue heron and White-tailed skimmer, at Land Between the Lakes in Golden Pond, Kentucky
7/9/19 Hackberry Emperor at Land Between the Lakes in Golden Pond, Kentucky
7/9/19 Cliff swallows at Land Between the Lakes in Golden Pond, Kentucky
5/26/19 - Two lilies blooming!
5/23/19 - South side with new siding, steps, stoop, and awning! Replanting of my trampled perennials is on my list, now.
5/23/19 - Front of house with new siding
5/19/19 - siding replacement on back of house has been completed
5/2/19 - My new steps and stoop are complete!
Woman at work sign
5/5/19 - I came across a couple Black Racers while out walking my dog. I suspect they were "in love", but were gracious enough to hold still to have their picture taken. These are harmless snakes…
House getting a make-over! Siding is original (1970)
1/19/19 - Cleo
1/13/19 - Cleo
6/30/18 - Black racer, a "good" snake that lives close to my pond. I assume it's been eating frogs and lizards, but when I took this photo it was merely drinking from the big pond. It looked at me,…
8/25/18 - Eastern Tiger swallowtail
8/25/18 - Azure butterfly
8/20/18 - Monarch
9/1/18 - Palamedes swallowtail
8/16/18 - Fiery skipper
8/11/18 - All my Louis L'Amour books on one shelf!
7/28/18 - First ever viewing of a Brazilian skipper
7/12/18 - White Admiral butterfly (new one!), photo taken in Michigan
7/12/18 - Great Spangled Fritillary (new one!), photo taken in Michigan
7/11/18 - Wood nymph butterfly, seen in UP Michigan (first time!)
6/17/18 - Sleepy orange butterfly, first sighting
5/15/18 - Monarch butterfly caterpillar on Milkweed
4/29/18 - View of the pond area from my kitchen window. You can see a Silver-spotted skipper on the shepherd's crook to the left side.
4/28/18 - Catbird
4/24/18 - Bearded iris, photo also showing weedy conditions (remedied on 4/28/18)
4/26/18 - A first time sighting for me of a Lincoln's sparrow!!!!
4/20/18 - Mockingbird perched on the propane tank. I was sitting outside at the time, and took this photo with my little Ricoh CX5.
Second pole with four feeders and a mockingbird
Feeder pole #1, plus a view of one of my hummingbird feeders. Bird bath is in the background.
4/18/18 - Male Ruby-throated hummingbird, at dusk
4/14/18 - Evening primroses! They'll have buttercup-type blooms in about three weeks.
4/11/18 - My first butterfly ID and photographed, a Silver-spotted skipper!
4/8/18 - See how the water has cleared!
3/31/18 - Pond cleaned, lilies repotted, and a new filter added!
3/3/18 - FINALLY! I was able to "catch" this Bluebird at the peanut/suet feeder!
2/24/18 - Shy violet next to a Canna lily
2/24/18 - Small Southern Leopard frog (you can't see it in this photo, but he still has a tiny "tail")
2/24/18 - New birdhouse for the Chickadees!
2/15/18 - Pond, after cleaning out dead frog and debris
1/14/18 - Tufted titmouse (looking straight at me!)
1/7/18 - Red-bellied woodpecker (male)
1/6/18 - Myrtle warbler, aka "Yellow-rumped" warbler
1/6/18 - Mockingbird in the snow
7/14/17 Tithonia & sky
1/4/18 - My dog Tirzah loves the snow. We got about 6" of snow, which is a lot for us. The schools and businesses are closed, the secondary roads are not plowed, and most of us with any sense have…
My granddaughter reading an ER book, Counting on Snow...
12/17/17 - A Hermit thrush! I wish the picture were clearer, but all I had "handy" was my Ricoh, and I was shooting through the kitchen window.
My Christmas present from my dh (dear husband), a new feeder pole and a woodpecker feeder to attract Pileated woodpeckers!
11/30/17 - Same nursery tank, in the middle of the cleaning process...posted to show just how many of these fry I have!
11/30/17 - Nursery tank full of albino BNP (Bristlenose plecostomus) fry.
10/19/17 - American Lady butterfly, at work
10/18/17 - My Bristlenose plecos keep reproducing. I finally set up a small (5.5 gallon) aquarium to raise them, as they're hard to catch once they get big enough to sell.
10/9/17 - One of two box turtles that my dog "found" in our yard.
10/7/17 - Variegated Fritillary, in park
10/7/17 - Pearl Crescent butterfly, at a local park
9/9/17 - Ocola skipper butterfly
9/3/17 - Black racer snake checking out my pond area
8/30/17 - While on vacation at Cape Lookout park, I saw a Black-bellied plover for the first time! The bird with long legs is a Willet, and the little bird is a Sanderling.
8/21/17 - Monarch butterfly caterpillar!
8/19/17 - Sulfur type butterfly
10/21/17 - Southern Leopard frog
10/21/17 - Monarch butterfly on a Mexican sunflower
10/16/17 - One of the Alpine kids at Goat Milk Stuff, an organic, family-run farm and business in Scottsburg, Indiana. Stop by if you're in the area!
10/16/17 - Me feeding a carrot to Genuine Reward, the eldest son of Genuine Risk, who beat the boys in the 1980 Kentucky Derby.
10/14/17 - Ruthie, at 18 months old
9/12/17 - Butterfly kisses from a Red-spotted Purple butterfly...I am in awe and wonder at the delicate creature that decided to land on my finger and taste my skin with its proboscis (tongue)
8/7/17 - At work, a hawk decided to rest on a railing inside a seldom-used courtyard. ID to be confirmed soon, but I think it's a juvenile Red-tailed or Red-shouldered hawk.
8/1/17 - Green frog, looks like he's chewing on his "finger"
8/3/17 - Southern Leopard frog hiding in the Creeping Jenny that grows all around my pond.
8/3/17 - "Baby" tree frog resting on a Water hyacinth.
8/2/17 - A very very tiny tree frog (less than 1/2"), crawling out of my little pond. I suspect it has just emerged from its tadpole stage. Welcome, little one!
8/3/17 - Water hyacinths blooming in the upper falls/spillway of my pond, along with a ceramic duck decoy and a frog ornament. The green plants at the bottom of the picture are water lettuce.
7/30/17 - Pond area, with a flamingo added (to the left of the bench). There's a craftsman at the local farmers' market who makes and sells bird decorations using pvc pipe! I went back and got a…
7/29/17 - A Red-bellied woodpecker JUVENILE at my feeders. I am unsure if it is male or female though you can see some hint of red on its head.
Another flamingo in my yard! ;)
8/5/17 - Red-banded Hairstreak amongst the Coreopsis. These butterflies are less than 1" long.
8/5/17 - My FIRST Monarch sighting, and I think it laid eggs in the milkweed patch!
8/5/17 - Female Cloudless Sulfur butterfly (I think)
7/24/17-Damselfly close-up: these insects are less than 1" long
7/22/17-Water hyacinth blooms
7/23/17-Azure "summer" butterfly
7/22/17-Eastern Pondhawk dragonfly
7/19/17-Leaf footed bug (Acanthocephala terminalis)
7/16/17-Carolina chickadee eating suet
7/11/17-Southern Leopard frog, living in my pond
7/9/17-Canna lily bloom
7/9/17-Possibly a Clouded skipper
7/9/17-Blue Dasher dragonfly, female
7/4/17 - Sleepy Orange butterfly
7/2/17 - White-tailed skimmer (female)
7/2/17 - Waterlily bloom and reflection
7/2/17 - Pond at noon
7/2/17 - Blue Dasher, female
6/25/17 - Southern Leopard frog
6/21/17 - Damselfly emerging from pond. I believe its wings are deformed.
6/18/17 - Eastern Kingbird
6/17/17 - Duskywing (of some sort) butterfly
6/3/17 - Fiery skipper on an Evening Primrose
6/14/17 - American Lady butterfly, side view
6/14/17 - American Lady butterfly on a purple coneflower
6/6/17 - A Green Tree frog has been serenading me every night, but I finally captured him with my camera!
05/28/17 - Female Blue Dasher I believe
5/20/17 - An American Lady? Will check to be sure.
5/20/17 - Female Eastern tailed-blue butterfly on milkweed blossoms
5/20/17 - My water lily finally bloomed, and it's yellow!
5/14/17 - Pond at dusk
5/13/17 - Pond still a work-in-progress (see my new bunny on the skimmer?)
5/4/17 - fuzzi and 2wonderY had a mini-meetup, enjoying dinner at an excellent Italian restaurant!
4/30/17 - Overhead view of the main pond
4/30/17 - We have "new pond syndrome": murky (algae) water, but the pond is still coming along nicely!
4/22/17 - Pond is up and running!
4/21/17 - At our local nursery, I spotted this Palamedes swallowtail butterfly!
4/15/17 - Couldn't get any closer to this one, think it's a Comma butterfly
4/15/17 - Common Sootywing taking a drink from the damp ground
4/15/17 - American Lady butterfly
4/16/17 - As of 8pm, this is what my new pond looks like. The filtration, waterfall, bog garden, and plants will be added in the next couple weeks, depending on the weather!
4/16/17 - the installation of my pond is almost done, just have to backfill with sand a little more around the edges, and add landscaping blocks under the rim for support
The gate I created, with just a little help from the "boys" (dh and son)
4/10/17 - Perennial "bird" garden, freshly weeded.
4/3/17 - A not-yet-identified snake was weaving its way through my chain link fence today. I got a lot of photos, but am only posting one here due to space constraints.
3/31/17 - First sighting of a skipper (butterfly) in 2017, this one is a Silver-spotted skipper
Wildflower (Toadflax?) - photo #1
3/25/17 - Skink!
3/25/17 - Anole
3/24/17 - My first Green frog!
3/25/17 - Mourning dove and reflection
3/18/17 - Red-bellied woodpecker (male)
3/18/17 - Myrtle warbler attempting to land on a suet feeder (he succeeded)
3/18/17 - Female Cardinal and Goldfinch share the feeder
3/18/17 - Goldfinch on right, scolding a male House finch, on left
3/14/17 - Male Towhee
3/12/17 - Snow on the wild violets
3/12/17 - Female Towhee (see the red eyes?)
3/12/17 - Myrtle, aka "Yellow-rumped" warbler
3/12/17 - Mockingbird
3/12/17 - Fox sparrow
3/12/17 - Balding male Cardinal (probably due to mites)
3/12/17 - Love this accidental "catch"!
3/12/17 - Bluejay
3/9/17 - Brown Thrasher
3/4/17 - My 29 gallon freshwater aquarium
3/1/17 - Yellow-bellied Sapsucker woodpecker
2/25/17 - White-breasted nuthatch and a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker woodpecker in the background
1/8/17 - An Eastern Towhee, usually not seen at feeders
1/8/17 - Male and female Goldfinches
1/8/17 - Brown-headed Nuthatch, a whopping 3.5 inches long...
1/8/17 - Starlings
1/8/17 - A first-time sighting for me, a Fox Sparrow!!!
1/8/17 - Carolina Chickadee
1/7/17 - Tufted Titmouse
1/7/17 - Junco, aka "Snow bird"
1/7/17 - Pine Warbler
1/7/17 - Myrtle Warbler, aka "Yellow-rumped" Warbler
1/7/17 - Carolina Wren
1/1/17 - Upside-down dining
12/17/16 - My cat "Java", licking the inside of the cat food bag...
12/19/16 - Red-bellied Woodpecker
12/19/16 - Mockingbird
12/19/16 - Brown Thrasher
Ruthie at 6 1/2 months
2/15/15 - Carolina Wren
12/3/16 - Second view of a Carolina Wren without a tail, checking out my new suet feeder.
12/3/16 - Carolina Wren without a tail! It is checking out my new suet feeder.
11/6/16 - Bladderwort and flowers
11/6/16 - Bladderwort flower
10/22/16 - A first-time NC sighting for me today, a female Towhee! They feed in the leaf litter of wooded areas, and don't generally visit feeders, but this one came for a drink, and a bath. I recall…
10/22/16 - A coworker found a used pond for me, probably at least a 50 gallon, maybe more. We'll be digging, soon, but don't plan to totally remove the old pond.
10/16/16 - Sulfur butterfly on the Pentas
10/13/16 - Monarch butterfly at work
10/5/16 - A Northern Pearly-eye inside, at my place of work. It seems to be looking through the window, longingly, so I cupped it in my hands and released it...freedom!
10/1/16 - Not a twig, but a caterpillar!
9/26/16 - Writing spider
9/17/16 - Marigold
9/14/16 - A Tersa Sphynx moth visits my Pentas
9/24/16 - Excitement! A female Rose-breasted Grosbeak visited my feeders, and came back the next day as well.
9/13/16 - Tersa Sphynx moth
9/26/16 - Red-banded Hairstreak
9/17/16 - Black Swallowtail, very worn and torn
9/17/16 Gray Hairstreak
9/12/16 - Palamedes butterfly
9/10/16 - Most of my "haul" from the public library book sale. I gave another book to my dh, and one to my brother.
9/10/16 - Red-spotted Purple butterfly
9/4/16 - Sleepy Orange
9/4/16 - My gardens were full of Sulfur butterflies, not yet ID'd this one
9/4/16 - I've got a Green Frog, yippee! You can see how tiny it is: that's my thumb on the left for scale.
9/3/16 - After the storm passed through, my Milkweed were in disarray...and in the front, you can see my poor carrots, eaten to the bone by the Swallowtail caterpillars!
8/30/16 - "End of the Road" (dragonfly) :(
8/30/16 - Doing the "J"?
8/29/16 - Side view of a Hackberry Emperor
8/29/16 - Probably a Hackberry Emperor
8/27/16 - Water Hyacinth buds opening
8/27/16 - Being watched by an Eastern Pondhawk dragonfly
8/27/16 - Fat Swallowtail caterpillar
8/27/16 - Chrysalis is changing...
8/27/16 - A birthday present, a butterfly feeder!
8/25/16 - Chrysalis
8/25/16 - Common Buckeye and reflections
8/25/16 - Common Buckeye, seen through a window
8/25/16 - Caterpillars have decimated my carrots, but it's okay.
8/24/16 - Morning Glory
8/24/16 - Swallowtail caterpillar and chrysalis
8/23/16 - Juvenile male Ruby-throated hummingbird
8/23/16 - Juvenile male Ruby-throated hummingbird
8/22/16 - Yesterday's "babies" got bigger overnight!
8/22/16 - Where did my caterpillars go? Hmm...a crysalis?
8/21/16 - Head on view
8/21/16 - Babies!
8/21/16 - Is this caterpillar assuming the "J"?
8/21/16 - My Pentas, Lantana (hard to see), and Hummingbird feeder. In the background you can see some Canna lilies
8/20/16 - Side view of Spicebush Swallowtail
8/20/16 - Finally, a Spicebush Swallowtail in MY yard! Poor fellow is missing part of a wing.
8/20/16 - Clouded Sulfur (male) close up
8/20/16 - Upside down Clouded Sulfur butterfly
8/20/16 - A male Clouded Sulfur butterfly (identified by bugguide.net)
8/20/16 - Sleepy Orange butterfly
8/16-16 - Young male Ruby-throated Hummingbird takes a meal at my feeder (you can see the white of his newly-fledged feathers)
The back of the Holiday Inn postcard I found inside a used book I bought today. Based upon the yellowing of the card (and the book), I suspect it's been there since the book was fairly new, back in…
The front of a postcard I found inside a used book I bought today.
8/17/16 - Orchard orbweaver, I think
8/17/16 - Bladderwort is blooming!
8/17/16 - Milkweed bug
8/18/16 - Two Swallowtail caterpillars
8/16/16 - A second Black Swallowtail caterpillar!
8/16/16 - Woo hoo! I found TWO Black Swallowtail caterpillars munching on my carrots (which I grew to attract and feed butterfly caterpillars).
7/30/16 - Grackle among the Coreopsis
8/10/16 - Virginia Tiger moth on my Canna Lilies
8/7/16 - A Tulip Tree Beauty moth (Epimecis hortaria) that flew into the house one evening
8/8/16 Another view of a female Spicebush Swallowtail
8/8/16 - Female Spicebush Swallowtail
8/8/16 - Fairly certain this is a female Horace's Duskywing
8/6/16 - A present from a hummingbird...see the feather?
8/6/16 - Variegated Fritillary
8/6/16 - Variegated Fritillary laying eggs #2
8/6/16 - Variegated Fritillary laying eggs #1
8/6/16 - Common Buckeye on Coreopsis
Another book shelf added to my wall!
8/2/16 - A male Pipevine Swallowtail, a first-time view for me! I did not get a photo of him above, but recall the "flush" of blue toward his tail.
7/23/16 - Sleepy Orange on Shasta Daisies
7/25/16 - Cosmos bloom
7/28/16 - One of my Petite Marigolds is doing very well...it was planted on the edge of that planter!
7/30/16 - Coreopsis taking over
7/9/16 - My favorite photo of Ruthie, almost three months old.
7/30/16 - Female Ruby-throated hummingbird checking out my Pentas
7/30/16 - Baby skink! It's a Southeastern Five-lined Skink (Eumceces inexpectatus).
7/29/16 - Blue Dasher Dragonfly
7/29/16 - View of a Fiery Skipper from above
7/29/16 - Fiery Skipper on Lantana at the local library
7/29/16 - Huge skink and small skink. About 24" to the right is where I found the snake.
7/29/16 - HUGE skink! (those bricks are 8" long, so he's close to a foot, 12"!!)
7/29/16 - Least Skipper, in my backyard
7/28/16 - waiting on some help from bugguide.net to ID this one
7/28/16 - A Fiery Skipper, photo taken with flash as this butterfly was in the shade
7/24/16 - Ruthie
7/26/16 - Tentatively ID'd as a Confused Cloudywing
7/26/16 - I believe this is a Confused Cloudywing on my Shasta daisies
7/23/16 - Female Ruby-throated Hummingbird just inches away from me. She gave me a look, then decided I was not a threat. I sloooooowly moved my camera up to shoulder level and took a few pictures…
7/23/16 - After discovering a medium-sized Copperhead (venomous snake) by my door, I decided to clean out the weeds, and make the area less hospitable for snakes.
7/23/16 - Sleepy Orange butterfly visiting my Pentas
7/21/16 - A Tersa Sphinx Moth caterpillar munching away on my Pentas
7/20/16 - Tiger Swallowtail at work
7/18/16 Copperhead
7/13/16 - Eastern Tailed Blue butterfly, seen in Valle Crucis, NC. This was another first-time sighting for me!
7/13/16 - Ebony Jewelwing (not technically a butterfly, but...) seen in Valle Crucis, NC
7/13/16 - Male Clouded Sulfur butterfly, in Valle Crucis, NC
7/13/16 - Least Skipper, in Valle Crucis, North Carolina
7/11/16 - This is Silver Charm, in retirement. He won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness in 1997, barely missing out on being a Triple Crown champion. He is 22 years old, and lives at Old Friends…
Chicago skyline from south of the city
7/9/16 - Ruthie
7/8/16 - From somewhere in Indiana, a Bisected Honey Locust Moth
7/6/16 - It is not a clear picture, but with help from bugguide.net, this has been identified as a Funereal Duskywing, a first-time sighting for me! Location: Max Meadows, VA
7/9/16 - Visiting with Ruthie, my granddaughter
7/3/16 - Clouded Skipper
7/1/16 - One of my "water garden" planters. The tall stem plants are Pickerel Rush (they have a Hyacinth-type of purple bloom), the small round green leaves are a Water Hyacinth, the round…
7/2/16 - A wasp/hornet drinking from the hummingbird feeder!
7/2/16 - Ragged-looking Buckeye
7/2/16 - Lantana and Pentas (red), big butterfly and hummingbird attractants!
7/2/16 - Milkweed growing! In the background you can see the overgrown vegetable garden (one of these days...), and the burn pile. The Lantana and Pentas are to the right, see next photo.
6/29/16 - A Two-lined Spittlebug, a type of leafhopper. I found its face to be fascinating.
6/29/16 - This is a Cabbage White butterfly, but in a yellow form.
6/29/16 - Caught eating the feral cats' food, this little boy (or girl) scooted up a small tree on the edge of the woods. It looks scared, but would not have been hurt by my dog, Tirzah, as the fun…
6/25/16 - A Silver-spotted Skipper, but with wing damage. Sad.
6/25/16 - I think this is a Spicebush butterfly, though tattered.
6/24/16 - First Shasta daisy bloom of 2016
6/24/16 - Tree frog (view #2)
6/24/16 - Tree frog! (hiding in my garden cart)
6/24/16 - A few minutes later I saw another butterfly, another male Horace's Duskywing, but very tattered (2 of 2 images)
6/24/16 - A few minutes later I saw another butterfly, another male Horace's Duskywing, but very tattered (1 of 2 images)
6/24/16 - I believe this is a male Horace's Duskywing
6/22/16 - A Sleepy Orange butterfly that would not cooperate with my picture-taking efforts, but you can still see it pretty well.
6/21/16 - Pearl Crescent, a little the worse for wear
6/18/16 - Lantana
6/16/16 - "Little Bug" is two months old! (Ruth Elizabeth)
6/18/16 - Southern blue sky
6/18/16 - Common Buckeye on Rudibeckia (Black-eyed Susan)
6/18/16 - Red day lilies in the early morning sun
6/12/16 - Another mid-air photo of the Variegated Fritillary
6/12/16 - Same Variegated Fritillary, caught in mid-air with my Sony. Note the shadow below.
6/12/16 - A Variegated Fritillary
6/12/16 - A Silver-spotted Skipper (Ricoh camera)
6/10/16 - from outside my work place: I think this is a Painted Skimmer. Just as I noticed the dragonfly, one of the helicopters started up, and there was such a breeze, I could not get a clear…
Overhead view of house and yard, with some info. The photo is at least three years old since I see my father's old RV parked at the top of the driveway! Property lines are approximate.
Overhead view of the house and yard, from Google.
6/7/16 - Pondhawk dragonfly!
6/7/16 - A Spring Complex butterfly (I think)
6/6/16 - Sycamore Tussock moth caterpillar (I think)
6/6/16 - My not-yet-completed project: the front yard slope, to be covered entirely with junipers and ground cover so we never have to mow it again, and hopefully not weed it much.
6/4/16 - My pond. Notice the purple bloom at the BASE of the irises?
6/2/16 - My creeping Thyme is blossoming! The actual blossom is about 1/4" wide
6/2/16 - A candy-striped Portulaca bloom!
6/2/16 - Rudbeckia bloom opening
5/30/16 - Bee on Hydrangea blossom
5/29/16 - Downy Woodpecker father feeding his fledgling
5/30/16 - First butterfly photo of 2016, a very frayed Cabbage White
5/27/16 - "Pond" spider
5/27/16 - "Mittsie", one of our ferals
5/21/16 - Bluejay trying to eat from the "little bird" feeder
5/21/16 - Brown-headed Nuthatch!
5/21/16 - Male Ruby-throated hummingbird
5/19/16 - Young rabbit at work!
5/19/16 - First blossom ever on my "new" Gardenia. This plant replaces a huge bush that died a couple years ago when we had some extended frigid temps.
5/18/16 - Evening Primroses and other flowers in front of my porch
5/13/16 - First bloom of the season for my Evening Primroses
5/12/16 - Still working on clearing out the Privet on north side of the house...now, what to put there in its place??
5/4/16 - Ruth E. is 3 weeks old!
5/8/16 - What a BIG skink!(those are standard 8" bricks)
5/8/16 - Perennial "bird" garden
5/9/16 - Now, THAT'S a burn pile...
5/9/16 - Another wow...thank you to my son for his hard work!
5/7/16 - After some work...
5/9/16 - Wow, what a difference a determined young man can make...
5/4/16 - Bee on Privet blossoms
5/1/16 - Wildflowers in the yard
5/1/16 - Yellow Irises
5/1/16 - Sundrops (a type of Evening Primrose, I think)
5/1/16 - Milkweed are doing well! In the back are carrot seedlings, in the front are Swiss Chard seedlings.
5/1/16 - First Amaryllis bloom of 2016
4/24/16 - This entire area was overgrown with Privet and Sweetbush and treelings. My son cleaned it out this afternoon, and I am thrilled.
4/24/16 - First Stella D'Oro lily of the season!
4/23/16 - Injured snapping turtle
4/22/16 - Skink, and what a survivor! Notice he's not only missing his tail, but he has damage all along his back. It looks as if he narrowly escaped becoming a tasty snack...
4/22/16 - Ladybug
4/22/16 - Catbird eating suet at my feeders: note the rain drops on his back.
4/21/16 - I caught another Bullfrog in my pond, but this one hadn't gotten huge yet!
4/14/16 - One of my Cherry Shrimp (less than 1" long) in a desktop aquarium at work
4/17/16 - Female Goldfinch
4/17/16 - A new brush/burn pile has been created. Note Tirzah is more interested in her ball...
4/17/16 - New Gardenia has been planted, watered, and protected from cats (picture 4)
4/17/16 - Hole dug, composted, and water being added (picture 3)
4/17/16 - Dead Gardenia has been removed (picture 2)
4/17/16 - Dead Gardenia bush, to be removed (picture 1)
4/13/16 - Welcome to the world, Ruth Elizabeth. Grandma loves you.
4/10/16 - Japanese Maple, ten years after planting an 18" nursery specimen (about 6' tall, now)
4/9/16 - Another view of Star-of-Bethlehem (Liliaceae Ornithogalum umbellatum)
4/9/16 - Tentatively ID'd as Star-of-Bethlehem (Liliaceae Ornithogalum umbellatum) argh, it's invasive. :(
Three scarves that I bought today, that match three of my favorite animals!
4/4/16 - Wildflower tbi Addendum: probably a Sow Thistle
4/4/16 - Not sure what this wildflower is... Addendum: probably a Sow Thistle
4/2/16 - I got inspired and weeded the pond area, and some of the perennial garden. You can now see the Stella D'Oro lilies in the top right of the garden.
4/1/16 - Could be a Robin, not sure, but I titled this "Blackbird"
4/1/16 - A tbi wildflower Addendum: ID'd as Low Hop Clover (Trifolium campestre)
3/31/16 - A tree covered with Wisteria
4/1/16 - Excitement! One of my Milkweed plants survived the winter, yes!
3/29/16 - Perennial garden has sprouted...and I have added the names of the flowers
3/29/16 - Tirzah in the long "grass", blueberry bushes in bloom behind her
3/29/16 - Another view of the perennials sprouting below the bird feeders
3/26/16 - Yellow-headed Vulture at Carolina Raptor Center, Huntersville, NC
3/26/16 - Osprey at the Carolina Raptor Center in Huntersville, NC
3/28/16 - White wildflowers in my yard Addendum: probably a Mouse-ear Chickweed
3/28/16 - Wet Japanese Maple leaf
3/25/16 - Three frogs...
3/25/16 - Male and female Downy woodpeckers sharing a treat
3/25/16 - My Dwarf Bristlenose Plecostomus (yes, he's albino, too)
3/24/16 - Close up of Wisteria blossom
3/24/16 Vetch blossom and insect photobomb
3/23/16 - Henbit Deadnettle in bloom (as opposed to Purple Deadnettle)
3/23/16 - TBI wildflower #3 with ruler (each of the marks is 1/16") Addendum: ID'd as Japanese Mazus
3/23/16 - TBI wildflower #1 Addendum: ID'd as Japanese Mazus
3/21/16 - Amaryllis sprouting
3/22/16 - A different type of moss (#2)
3/22/16 - Moss
3/21/16 - Name that flower! Addendum: ID'd as Japanese Mazus
3/18/16 - Different Daffodils
3/21/16 - Blueberry blossoms
3/17/16 - Limax maximus, or "Leopard slug"
3/13/16 - Uh oh, a Bullfrog...
3/18/16 - First Silver-spotted Skipper of 2016, second view
3/18/16 - First Silver-spotted Skipper of 2016!
3/16/16 - Violets and other wildflowers in bloom
3/16/16 - Cherry Shrimp and my Nerite snail, "Dale"
3/16/16 - Green frog in my pond, sort of...
3/16/16 - An addition to my desktop "aquarium" at work: one of three Cherry Shrimp I bought yesterday
3/11/16 - My pond fish, waiting for the pond to be cleaned...can you find all six?
3/11/16 - Green frog waiting for me to finish cleaning the pond
3/11/16 - Cleaning the pond!
3/11/16 - "Sycamore Sunrise"
3/11/16 - Grape Hyacinths in bloom, and Parsley
2/29/16 - Daffodil
2/28/16 - Red-bellied Woodpecker
My Sycamore tree is on the left, the neighbor's huge pine is to the right.
3/2/16 - One of two raccoons my dog "treed" just outside our door. No raccoons were harmed, as I would not allow it, though I doubt my dog would have known what to do if she'd actually "caught" one.
2/27/16 - Momma Cat looking me over...
2/27/16 - First Daffodil
2/27/16 - Crocus
2/20/16 - Turtles!
2/20/16 - Tracks in the mud, including Raccoon and Mink!
2/20/16 - Tundra Swans, wide shot showing how far away they were (300x zoom lens)
2/20/16 - Tundra Swans (aka Whistling Swans) from across the field
2/20/16 - Eagle nest on left with one of the parent's heads showing (white), and it looks like the other parent is watching from the left.
2/20/16 - My first photo of a Bald Eagle! I've only seen one once before in the wild.
2/20/16 - First Camellia blossom
2/21/16 - Purple Deadnettle in bloom...it covers whole fields here in NC in the early Spring
2/7/16 Myrtle Warbler, aka "Yellow-rumped" Warbler
2/6/16 - Mockingbird, eating from the suet feeder
1/23/16 - Apart from a bunch of branches "down", this was the only damage I could find from storm Jonas: my reflectors were bent by the wind!
1/18/16 - Male Downy Woodpecker and Male Cardinal(background)
1/23/16 - Bird feeders
1/20/16 - Interesting ice formations above my pond: photo taken by Maglite...
1/18/16 - Female Cardinal
1/15/16 - Very stormy afternoon
4/19/15 - Boots
5/2/15 - "Momma Cat" resting in my flower planter!
9/20/15 - My three "ferals"
Mittsie, one of my ferals
11/14/15 - Feral cat shelters on the porch
11/14/15 - Shelters for my feral cats, made from styrofoam packing cubes (free!)
Hey, I never claim to be a carpenter, a mechanic, or even a "handyman"...I just do what needs to be done to hold something together until I can get someone capable to do it for me!
10/3/14 - Rock fungus in my yard
1/2/16 - Purple finch
1/2/16 - Carolina Chickadee
1/2/16 - Tufted Titmouse
1/2/16 - Male Red-bellied Woodpecker
12/26/15 - The warm weather has confused the violets!
12/27/15 - The warm weather has encourged my Green Frogs to emerge from hibernation...
12/26/15 - The truly LAST butterfly of 2015?
12/22/15 - Zebra Danios and a solitary Glowlight Tetra
Chicken Soup With Rice, September page
Chicken Soup With Rice, July page
Inside cover of my copy of Chicken Soup Wtih Rice: notice the little picture taped/pasted on the page...the Weekly Reader had included that picture of the author on the order form, and suggested that…
Chicken Soup With Rice cover, December 1968 paperback edition
From "Chicken Soup with Rice" by Maurice Sendak
From "Chicken Soup with Rice" by Maurice Sendak
From "Chicken Soup with Rice" by Maurice Sendak
From "Chicken Soup with Rice" by Maurice Sendak
From "Chicken Soup with Rice" by Maurice Sendak
From "Chicken Soup with Rice" by Maurice Sendak
From "Chicken Soup with Rice" by Maurice Sendak
From "Chicken Soup with Rice" by Maurice Sendak
From "Chicken Soup with Rice" by Maurice Sendak
From "Chicken Soup with Rice" by Maurice Sendak
11/18/15 - Cloudless Sulfur butterfly, probably the last one I'll see in 2015
11/7/15 - Closeup of a Grasshopper...I never realized just how intricately patterned they were!
11/7/15 - Not yet identified Skipper butterfly. Look at his tongue (proboscis), though!
10/25/15 - Sweet potatoes! All I did was stick a softening sweet potato in my raised bed flower garden a couple months ago...
10/25/15 - Caterpillar hiding in a pot of dirt. He had a "horn" on one end which is not well-defined in this photo.
10/24/15 - Ocola Skipper
10/24/15 - Ocola Skipper on my Carolina Chrysanthemums
10/18/15 - Stowaway tree frog (he came in with my houseplants!)
10/8/15 - Bee visiting a flowering shrub at work
10/6/15 - Usually it's the caterpillar that looks like a leaf, but in this case...
10/1/15 - The pond
10/4/15 - Pearl Crescent in the wet grass
10/3/15 - Silver-spotted Skipper and a very wet bee!
10/3/15 - Female Tiger Swallowtail (I think)
9/30/15 -Male Cardinal
9/30/15 - Happy Pond Friends
9/15/15 - Green Frog, with my pond's waterfall in the background
9/15/15 - Dark Skipper, will ID shortly
9/9/15 - Green frog in my pond, a closeup!
9/10/15 - Where there's a will, there's a way: the Green frog from my pond and another Green frog are sharing some "quality time" together in a water planter...
9/12/15 - Common Buckeye on the Lantanas, check out it's tongue!
9/12/15 - Cowbirds...I've never understood the disdain for these birds.
9/13/15 - Another tongue shot...
9/13/15 - He's sticking out his tongue!
9/12/15 - Bunny pic #1
9/12/15 - Long-tailed Skipper, front view (see its tongue/proboscis?)
9/12/15 - Long-tailed Skipper on my Lantanas
9/8/15 - A Duskywing butterfly, I think, and specifically, a female Horace's as per my perusal of Kaufman's. I've submitted this and a couple other photos to bugguide.net.
9/6/15 - Look who checked out my gardens last night...nothing much to damage, so he/she's welcome to stay around.
8/30/15 - Fiery Skipper, I think
9/6/15- Another view of a Pearl Crescent butterfly
9/5/15 - Pearl Crescent butterfly
8/30/15 - Hairstreak butterfly
8/30/15 - A caterpillar covered with parasites. He/she will not be turning into a butterfly or moth.
8/31/15 - Female dark Tiger Swallowtail butterfly
8/31/15 - Probably a female dark Tiger Swallowtail butterfly
8/29/15 - Cloudless Sulfur, I think
8/29/15 - Blue Dasher Dragonfly
8/29/15 - Hummingbird moth
8/29/15 - Variegated Fritillary
8/28/15 - Tobacco Budworm Moth (Heliothis virescens)
8/28/15 - Unicorn caterpillar (Schizura unicornis) facial view
8/28/15 - Unicorn caterpillar (Schizura unicornis)chomping on my Japanese Maple
8/26/15 - Palamedes Swallowtail, second view
8/26/15 - Palamedes Swallowtail
8/23/15- Tiger Swallowtail #3
8/23/15 - Tiger Swallowtail #2
8/23/15 - Tiger Swallowtail #1
8/17/15 - A worn Red-spotted Purple, I believe.
8/17/15 - Hackberry Emperor butterfly
8/17/15 - Probably a Hackberry Emperor
8/14/15 - Another angle of the Sleepy Orange butterfly
8/14/15 - Sleepy Orange butterfly on Lantana
8/13/15 - Love is a dangerous business in the spider world...
8/10/15 - Mummified caterpillar, uploaded to show to Cassie
8/11/15 - Wet webs and garden ("writing" spiders). The little spider on the left is probably a male, who is waiting for the opportunity to woo the huge female on the right, the black and yellow…
8/9/15 - Blue Dasher on a Canna Lily bud...look at its eyes!
8/5/15 - Sleepy Orange butterfly, and shadow
8/9/15 - Same butterfly, probably a Fiery Skipper
8/8/15 - Probably a Fiery Skipper, although one view looks more like a Whirlabout butterfly
8/9/15 - Common Buckeye
8/2/15 - Clouded skipper
8/2/15 - Female Downy Woodpecker on a Canna Lily bud, eating insects?
8/2/15 - Front end of a Black Racer Snake
8/2/15 - Black Racer Snake sunbathing on our "burn" pile (#1)
8/1/15- Another view of a Sphinx caterpillar, see his tiny "horn" tail?
8/1/15 - Tentatively ID'd as a Tersa Sphinx Moth caterpillar
Second view of Clearwing
8/1/15 - A Clearwing moth, not sure which type
7/31/15 - Sleepy Orange butterfly drinking from a Lantana blossom
7/31/15 - A very exciting photo! This damselfly has been caught just emerging from its nymph stage.
7/28/15 - Male Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly. I would not have gotten a chance to photograph him except that he was injured, poor guy.
7/28/15 -Profile shot of male Tiger Swallowtail butterfly
7/28/15 - Male Tiger Swallowtail
7/25/15 - Hi there, newbie!
7/25/15 - Damselfly emerging from larval stage!
7/26/15 - From the north side, pond area
7/26/15 - Another view of my pond area
7/25/15 - The area around my pond is taking shape!
7/24/15 - Sleepy Orange butterfly amongst the Lantanas
7/15/15 - A VERY fuzzy caterpillar!
7/19/15 - Female Pearl Crescent, a first-time for me!
7/18/15 - Pond with blooming Water Hyacinths
7/18/15 - Silver-spotted skipper
7/18/15 - My Canna lily/Lantana/Pentas raised-bed garden, with sweet potato vines all over!
7/16/15 - Probably a "Slaty-blue" Dragonfly
7/17/15 - Damselfly with damaged wings :(
7/18/15 - Damselfly
6/24/15 - Red-spotted Purple (Limenitis arthemis astyanax), at a rest stop off the highway, in Pennsylvania, or Maryland, or northern Virginia. Wish I could have gotten closer.
6/24/15 - Limenitis arthemis astyanax - Red-spotted Purple (Admiral) butterfly, at a rest stop off the highway, in Pennsylvania, or Maryland, or northern Virginia. Looks like some sort of Gray…
7/12/15 - Love this shot!
7/11/15 - Four Sleepy Orange butterflies checking out the damp cypress mulch!
7/11/15 - Sleepy Orange butterfly
7/10/15 - A better view of the Bullfrog. The first time I opened the bag, to give him a little air, he leaped out and away, about six feet!
7/10/15 - Bullfrog, caught this morning in my little pond. So, THAT'S why all my goldfish have been disappearing! The quarter is on top of the bag, for scale, to show how hugs this fellow was.
7/5/15 - Four Comet Goldfish shortly before being added to my pond
7/3/15 - Yellow "sulfur" type butterfly #2
7/3/15 - Yellow "sulfur" type butterfly #1
7/3/15 - "fuzzi" caterpillar!
7/3/15 - Pond, rearranged
7/3/15 - Caterpillar on my violets
7/3/15 - The mulching project continues #4 (almost done)
The mulching project continues #3 (almost done)
7/3/15 - The mulching project continues #2
7/3/15 - The mulching project continues #1
6/21/15 - Dingmans Falls, Pennsylvania
6/21/15 - Dingmans Falls, Pennsylvania
6/26/15 - Red Daylily (and yes, that's the true color)
6/26/15 - Dragonfly on my Pickerel Rush
6/24/15 - Frog at a rest stop, on the drive home from Connecticut
6/118/15 - White-tailed Skimmer
6/17/15 - Ebony Jewelwing (wish it were clearer)
6/16/15 - First Canna Lily bloom
6/15/15 - Damselfly
6/14/15 - Blue Dasher dragonfly (closeup)
6/13/15 - Not yet identified butterfly, possible Sulfur
6/13/15 - Tentatively ID'd as a Blue Dasher dragonfly
6/13/15 - Mulch project, different angle
6/13/15 - Mulch has been laid on the cardboard
6/12/15 - Evening, laying down the cardboard
6/12/15 -What a find!!! Large, heavy-duty cardboard boxes to (hopefully!) finish up my mulching project. We'll head to the garden center in a few, to get the remaining cypress mulch needed.
6/12/15 - Unusual coloring in this Milkweed plant's leaves
6/12/15 - My "tipsy pots" full of Portulaca plants
6/11/15 - Dragonfly, tbi
6/8/15 - YES!!!! Finally I got a photo of the male Ruby-throated Hummingbird that's been coming to the feeder this past week, woo!
6/7/15 - Found this in my pond this afternoon...I think it's a dragonfly nymph!
6/6/15 - My pond in the early morning
5/31/15 - Female Ruby-throated Hummingbird
5/31/15 - Evening Primroses in full bloom
5/31/15 - Mulching project, as much as I could do before I ran out of cardboard and Cypress mulch!
5/30/15 - Raised bed "butterfly" garden, with Lantana, Pentas, and more Canna lilies
5/30/15 - Raised bed "butterfly" garden, with Marigolds, Thyme, Dill, Milkweed, and Canna lilies (on the right)
5/30/15 - Current view of pond, before my planned mulching work.
5/29/15 - Brown Thrasher taking a bath
5/30/15 - Female Ruby-throated hummingbird
5/27/15 - One of my milkweed seedlings
5/26/15 - A male Summer Tanager stopped by my birdbath at dusk, and I was so very excited! I have not seen one in over 40 years.
5/22/15 - A blue damselfly of some sort, not yet identified
5/22/15 - A Question Mark butterfly (Polygonia interrogationis), a first sighting for me! The top of the wings are orange with black spots, but I was unable to get a clear photo of those.
5/17/15 - Better-looking photo of my pond
5/17/15 - Not sure, but possibly a very small (baby) Garden/writing spider
5/17/15 - I believe this is a brand new "fresh" White-spotted Skipper!
5/17/15 - Skipper, possibly a Dusky Roadside skipper, or a Clouded skipper
5/17/15 - Common Whitetail Skimmer
5/16/15 - Pond, today
5/16/15 - Too bright for a good photo, but here's my current pond and "bird" garden setup. You can see the red Amaryllis just to the right of the main bird feeder pole.
5/16/15 - Wheelbarrow herb garden
5/16/15 - American Lady
5/14/15 - Damage done while placing underground cable: three days later and no one has come back to "fix" it. Grrr.
5/14/15 - My Milkweed seedlings are up!
5/14/15 - Spring Azure butterfly (Celastrina ladon)
5/12/15 - Closeup of green snake I saw today
5/12/15 - Look who was checking out my compost tumbler late this afternoon? I think he's cute.
5/10/15 - Basil seedlings!
5/9/15 - "Weeping" Marigold
5/9/15 - TBI dragonfly
5/9/15 - Carolina Chickadee feeding its young
5/9/15 - Turtle in my backyard
5/8/15 - Red Admiral at the local nursery
5/6/15 - "Eddie", the Anole who came to my office, is released back in my gardens!
5/6/15 - an Anole in my office! He must have hitched a ride with the plants I gave away...
5/4/15 - Yellow irises
4/27/15 - Peach iris blossom
4/27/15 Blueberries
5/2/15 - Anole "in love"
5/2/15 - Raised bed (butterfly/hummer) garden redone
5/2/15 - White iris bloom
4/30/15 - Yellow iris
4/28/15 - American Lady butterfly
4/28/15 - thinning out my perennial garden
4/22/15 - Tirzah was playing in the backyard with this little guy, but he seems to be fine. He's just hiding from an over-playful dog.
4/22/15 - Portulaca is blooming already!
4/21/15 - Iris bloom almost open
4/20/15 - Iris about to bloom
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4/19/15 - TBI insect...isn't he pretty?
4/19/15 - Killifish and Waterlily leaves
4/19/15 - Portulaca planted in the tipsy-pots.
4/18/15 - Strawberry blossom with raindrops
4/18/15 - Mulched the blueberries!
4/18/15 - Blueberries forming
4/18/15 - Anole, a type of lizard (totally harmless)
4/17/15 - Killifish, added to my little pond
4/17/15 - Spiderwort blossom, after a rainshower
4/15/15 - My waterlily's leaves have broken through the surface of the pond, yes!
3/3/15 - Moonpie
4/12/15 - Tufted Titmouse
4/12/15 - Mole cricket
4/13/15 - Clematis vine
4/12/15 - Spiderwort
4/12/15 - First confirmed butterfly sighting of 2015: a Silver-spotted skipper!
4/12/15 - Front of the house, gardens "in progress"
4/12/15 - A BIG skink!
4/11/15 - Blue-tailed Skink
4/11/15 - Carolina Chickadee upset about my rearranging items on the porch, near its nest
4/11/15 - Carolina Chickadee on bird house
4/10/15 - Side steps, with newly planted Vincas in the pots, and, of course, Tirzah
4/10/15 - Japanese Maple and Marigolds
4/10/15 Iris bed
4/4/15 - Perennial "bird" garden is back!
4/4/15 - Annuals waiting for transplant
4/4/15 - My pond with a few new plants added
4/2/15 - My dog Tirzah and her new pink bunny Peep
Comparison of Deadnettle (on left) to Henbit (on right)
3/30/15 - Bee on Deadnettle (wildflower/weed)
3/28/15 - Bluejay
3/27/15 - Violets in the background, and a Purple finch (male)
3/27/15 - Wild and tame flowers in my front yard
TBI flower, anyone know what it is?
3/18/15 - Henbit
3/21/15 - First bee!
3/11/15 - First violet!
3/11/15 - Camellia in bloom
3/2/15 - Crocus in my planter
Rusty Blackbird, January 2014
Java resting on the back of the recliner, in which I am sitting. (iPad photo)
I stand with Israel!
6/17/14 - Blue Dasher dragonfly
Mowgli being kidnapped by monkeys, illustration by Fritz Eichenberg
Bagheera and Mowgli, black and white illustration by Fritz Eichenberg
Black and white illustration of Mowgli being "adopted" by the wolf pack, illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg
From The Jungle Book, illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg
Fritz Eichenberg illustration
From Jungle Book illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg
Jungle Book - Illustrated Junior Library edition
"My Library" - snagged from Facebook
"Eureka!"
12-10-13 "Blue Mockingbird"
Cutter Kinseeker by Wendy Pini (Elfquest)
2/9/13 Evening primroses are coming back! (reddish leaves)
2/9/13 Yellow crocus
02/09/13 Purple crocus
01/22/13 Myrtle Warbler
01/22/13 Red Breasted Nuthatch
01/22/13 Mockingbird
01/22/13 Bluejays, possibly parent and fledgling?
01/22/13 Bluejay screaming!
01/22/13 Bluejay
Snails in my aquarium: the one on the left's eyes are visible!
12/28/12 Red Betta (Siamese Fighting Fish) and a recent addition, a Blue Gourami, do a little 'dance' of sorts to see who is boss. No fish were injured, but I think the Betta won.
12/16/12 Male House Finch
12/16/12 Male Cardinal
12/16/12 Mockingbird seems to be saying "Are you looking at ME???" He's perching on suet cakes.
12/16/12 Downy Woodpecker on the feeder pole
12/16/12 Red Bellied Woodpecker eating from a suet cage
12/16/12 Bluejay eating from a feeder designed to thwart large birds. I guess he/she didn't read the specifications? ;)
12/28/12 Current aquarium view
Another over-stacked bookshelf at home...
My L'Amour and other Westerns shelf. Underneath is my CJ Cherryh shelf.
Blackie (8/20/12)
092112 Red-spotted Purple Butterfly (Limenitis arthemis)
092212 Blackie
09/17/12 Penguin at the NC Aquarium (Pine Knoll Shores)
09/18/12 Feeding gulls at Morehead City, NC
09/18/12 Gulls near Morehead City, NC (my dh was feeding them)
09/16/12 Black backed gull (Salter Path, NC)
09/18/12 Sanderling, a type of sandpiper (Salter Path, NC)
09/16/12 Deserted beach, Salter Path NC
09/18/12 Strong surf, Salter Path NC
9/11/12 Damage to my Japanese Maple, due to a couple of caterpillars...grrr...
9/9/12 Tirzah
9/9/12 Palamedes Swallowtail 02
9/9/12 Palamedes Swallowtail 01
9/6/12 Tirzah, at play (she looks stark raving mad, doesn't she?)
9/7/12 Hawaiian Beet Webworm (spoladea recurvalis)
9/7/12 Clouded Skipper
9/7/12 Clouded Skipper, another view
Eucalyptus 'tree' that I bought this summer and transplanted into a large pot.
09/02/12 Tobacco hornworm
09/02/12 Trumpet Creeper, Campsis radicans
09/01/12 Twelve-spotted Skimmer - Libellula pulchella
09/02/12 Skink #2 (same one)
09/02/12 Skink (note the blue tail!)
090212 Least Skipper #2
090212 Least Skipper #1
08/31/12 Mushroom #3, second view
08/31/12 Mushroom #3, first view
08/31/12 Mushroom #2, second view
08/31/12 Mushroom #1, second view
08/31/12 Mushroom #1, first view
09/01/12 Small Anole on my birdfeeder pole
08/30/12 Same unidentified butterfly (hopefully not for long!)
083112 Hornworm, Tobacco (Manduca sexta)
8/29/12 Another mushroom outside my work place
8/28/12 Outside work (we've had a lot of rain!)
8/27/12 Mushrooms at work
8/27/12 Green caterpillar with a forked tail (Identified as a Mottled Prominent moth caterpillar-Macrurocampa marthesia)
Tentatively identified as a Carolina Satyr (8/18/12)
8/5/12 Borage #2
8/5/12 I think this is Borage, although I did not plant it this year, nor did I plant it in this area last year...but on the other side of the yard!
08/05/12 All yellow butterfly
08/15/12 I think another Sleepy Orange, although it does look some different
080512 Sleepy Orange butterfly?
08/04/12 "Writing" spider, #2
08/04/12 "Writing" spider (see the zigzags on its web?)
7/29/12 Unknown butterfly on purple coneflower, in my backyard.
7/29/12 Sleepy-orange butterfly on grape vine
7/28/12 Vegetable (weed) garden, oh the shame! I never got it planted this year. The tall feathery weeds are 'Dog fennel', which is not only a tough woody invasive plant, but it also has an…
7/28/12 Perennial garden (tall yellow flowers are Coreopsis)
7/28/12 Japanese Maple is finally growing taller!
7/28/12 Front border (by front porch) close up. See the tomato plant? Also, what is that weed in the middle, with the multiple leaf structure?
7/28/12 Red Admiral Butterfly (on Coreopsis)
Moonpie in one of his 'uncomfortable' poses (7/12/12)
Christmas 2008 (Java)
Java behind the blinds
Ying (aka "Little Girl")
Black-eyed Susans 7-12-12
Shasta daisies 7-12-12
Summer squash 7-12-12
Tomato plants 7-12-12
Perennial garden 7-12-12
Java, "loafing", from 2010
Resting on top of the fence ("Mouse")
Three little kittens, sleeping in the flower pot....
'Fat Boy' Java
Moonpie sitting in my spouse's shoe....????
Boots, one of our strays, on the gate...
Moonpie, again on his back, March 2012
Moonpie, December 2011
Moonpie acting like a moonie
Day lilies by the fence.
Japanese maple: I planted it six years ago, but it's not started to look really healthy and happy until this year. Note the marigolds I planted around it, and the grass clippings for mulch (the…
My other project from Tuesday: I moved the marigolds from pots to the area around my Japanese maple, then put my bargain geraniums in the posts instead. I had too many for the pots, so I put three in…
Perennial garden 6/23/12
Red lilies are doing great!
Finally! A picture that is close to the true color of the Hydrangeas (they are doing so well this year)!
05/23/12 Storm, picture 3. See the water cascading off the roof, in front of the porch? We got approximately 6" of rain last night!
05/23/12 Storm, picture 1 - see the ditch full of water, running?
Angel Wing Begonia, bird house, etc, front porch 5/11/12
My front porch about 7pm on May 11th.
Different angle, "Tipsy Pots". I have planted strawberries in them.
The car we found for our son: cheap but reliable transportation we hope!
Look who's living inside my gardening closet!
Iris garden, view 3
I believe these are called "Sundrops". They are prolific, and could be invasive except they are easily pulled up. They can take heat, drought, cold, and still keep on growing.
Washing one another's feet
Yellow Iris, just started blooming this week!
Three tomatoes, planted on 4/14/12. One is a "Better Bush" and the other two are patio types.
Dirt, peat moss and composted cow manure have been added
My raised bed 'garden', in progress...
Aha! Caught! My cat, Moonpie, is checking out his new roommate, Dagon the goldfish...tsk, tsk, naughty, naughty, naughty....
Carolina Jasmine on one area of my chain link fence. It was only a twig six years ago.
Another view of the perennial garden, March 18th. Behind you can see the blueberry garden, which I need to weed.
My perennial garden from March 18, 2012. The bird bath was reinstalled today after some creature knocked it over last night. This time I have sunk it into the ground and put large rocks around it for…
One more picture of Tirzah, so you can see her tail - it looks like she got her tail from her German Shepherd mother. Her father was a black Labrador Retriever.
My dog Tirzah, after I said the word "squirrel" (even though there wasn't one!). I was just trying to keep her still enough so I could get an UNblurred picture!
My dog Tirzah, in profile (February 2012)
Camelia blooming on February 18, 2012
Hungry, hungry kitty eats her basket...from Saving Graces 4 Felines' shelter.
My cat, Sam and my son, winter of 1983
My washtub planter, blooming on January 28, 2012
Java and Moonpie on the bed (where else?) - December 2011
Christmas 1964 - the pajamas were made by my mom
The house I was raised in, in Connecticut. See why I'm a sucker for old houses?
1963
Pooh, with my son. This picture is from 1988, when Pooh was 14 and my son was 5.
Kyrie, on her favorite couch, with her favorite treat, a 'hoof'. This picture was taken about 1993.
Kyrie, in about 1991. That's the sole of a sneaker she has between her front paws.
Moonpie (left) and Java sitting at the kitchen window, waiting for the birds to arrive at the feeder.
My dog, Tirzah, in her pool. It looks like she was thirsty!
Mexican sunflower. I've not planted these in years, they continue to self seed. Some of them are over six feet tall!
Java and Moonpie, from 2007
Moonpie
Tirzah after a long game of 'ball' in the backyard
My favorite picture of all
"Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee." (Psalm 122:6)
Photo from my garden
He is risen!
The Cat Who Walked By Himself
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