Here are a few random bits and bobs from the last few weeks.
We have a shed in our yard we use for garden tools, etc. The doors were open on it for about a week or so. One day Don saw a robin fly in with food in its beak, and we thought, "Uh oh, robin built a nest inside." If that was the case, we'd have to keep the shed doors open until the babies fledged.
Later that same day I went to put something inside the shed and saw this:
Not a nest, but a fledgling that had made its way in.
Of course we left the shed doors open. By the next day, it was gone.
Ground squirrel.
Full moon behind a pine.
There is a single volunteer sunflower plant growing in one of the potato beds.
It's always worth examining things like this up close...
...because you never know what you might see.
And another small spider, this one on our screen door. I believe it's a young orb weaver.
I have some basil plants growing on the deck. I was going to transplant them into the garden beds, but never got around to it, so I repotted them in larger pots and they're happily growing.
However something was eating the leaves.
Aha! Found the culprit. Look how closely it blends in, color-wise. I scooped it up and dumped it over the side of the balcony.
Grasses, blooming.
Allergies, anyone?
A clump of irises growing by the side of the driveway. This photo was taken about a month ago.
In late June, I baffled to see what looked like carrots growing in the rocks next to one of the garden beds. Carrots? How?
The mystery was solved a few weeks later. Not carrots, but Queen Anne's lace, a member of the carrot family.
I know Queen Anne's lace is technically an invasive weed, but I absolutely stinkin' love it.
A very, very distant doe and her fawn.
Some quail parents herding their chicks toward the safety of some brush.
Sunrise..
...and sunset.
I just love your photos. The ones of the sunset are particularly nice.
ReplyDeleteLiving with and within nature. One of the true blessings given to us all. I gladly pay the price of admission.
ReplyDeleteI too, love your photos. If you ever decide to change careers you already have got 'shot' at making it as a nature photographer
ReplyDeleteFall is coming. Early this year I think.
ReplyDeleteThe Queen Anne's Lace has edible roots. It would be a lot of trouble though. And so much grows beside roads, where weeds get sprayed, and in those places the plant isn't probably safe to eat. Little old ladies around here used to bundle up and go out to cut buckets of those flowers for arrangements. It's becoming a lost art.
Speaking of art. I think your photography is a form of praise to our Creator. A visual testimony and celebration that He Lives. His living creation. His love inhabiting and proclaiming in this living creation shouting in every part that, HE LIVES!!!
Amen to "HE LIVES!!!". I, too, love this site and am happy that all is going well. 😊 Ramona from NC
ReplyDeleteAnother "Amen!" to "HE LIVES!" God's amazing creation is depicted well in your lovely photos. Thanks for sharing them!
ReplyDeleteYour photos feed my soul. It is such a blessing that you actually notice beauty in the “simple” things around you. So many people go around in a fog, or have tunnel vision for the wrong things.
ReplyDeleteFor many years I worked a corporate job, stuck in an office. I gave it up a year after our move to a rural area. One of the most stunning things in my life that I’ll never forget is that first year at home, when I got to witness every season and their transitions, up close and personal, by spending almost all of my waking hours outdoors. I was given an incredible gift by God. Not so much the nature, as that is always around us in some form, but rather the stillness, the curiosity, and the ability to actually notice it.
I love Queen Anne's Lace, too.
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