Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Tuesday, July 06, 2004
Got Sun?
... flowers, that is.
A dwarf type of sunflower with darker orange petals, rusty-chocolate eyes, and a repeat bloomer up and down the stalks, as you can see.
My butterfly bush seems to be loving the weather. It's absolutely covered with tiny purple flowers in those big clusters, and smells yummy!
As you can see, my Maid of Orleans jasmine not only survived the winter, but is now happily blooming and making wonderful jasmine smells on that side of the yard.
A dwarf type of sunflower with darker orange petals, rusty-chocolate eyes, and a repeat bloomer up and down the stalks, as you can see.
My butterfly bush seems to be loving the weather. It's absolutely covered with tiny purple flowers in those big clusters, and smells yummy!
As you can see, my Maid of Orleans jasmine not only survived the winter, but is now happily blooming and making wonderful jasmine smells on that side of the yard.
Monday, July 05, 2004
Got Chiles?
Crazy pepper lady strikes again.
OH! And my biiiiig tomato plant now has 7 new green 'maters growing. YEEEEES!
You won't find the Chile Alcalde I'm growing with a regular search. Native Seeds is the only place that carries them, and they specialize in trying to save Native American food crops. A wonderful place, I plan on ordering far too much from them for next year.
The Alcalde is a Mild-medium hot pepper that goes sweet when red. I can't wait to try them.
I have a great double handful of alcaldes now. Mmm. Time to string!
My first cayennes.
Aren't the Christmas limas cute?
Love love love eggplant blossoms. Need to get pics of the eggplant already picked. Before they're eaten.
OH! And my biiiiig tomato plant now has 7 new green 'maters growing. YEEEEES!
You won't find the Chile Alcalde I'm growing with a regular search. Native Seeds is the only place that carries them, and they specialize in trying to save Native American food crops. A wonderful place, I plan on ordering far too much from them for next year.
The Alcalde is a Mild-medium hot pepper that goes sweet when red. I can't wait to try them.
I have a great double handful of alcaldes now. Mmm. Time to string!
My first cayennes.
Aren't the Christmas limas cute?
Love love love eggplant blossoms. Need to get pics of the eggplant already picked. Before they're eaten.
Tuesday, April 15, 2003
SNAKE!
We found our first snake!
I'm almost giddy, really. DG and I were setting out the parameters for the garden plots, and he went to move a concrete slab that was in the way. The snake was under it.
Gloves on, I went to try to catch him so he wouldn't be in the way and get chopped up by the tiller, but I was afraid of hurting him so I didn't really make a grab before he darted off down into a deeper hole safely on the other side of the fence. Unfortunately, he made his escape before the Things could really see him.
Greenish-grey, more grey really, and a little smaller in diameter than my pinky. Never saw his head. Not really sure what kind of snake he was, but we finally saw one of them. No other colouration or markings, very subtle smooth scales.
Snake. *silly grin*
We also found our second, third, and fourth snakes. One tiny tiny, one medium tiny, one medium, compared to the larger (by proportion) first snake. Only got pictures of snake 3, the others were too quick.
Rough earth snakes, colubrids (ooo, me was right), that get aroud 13" or so and eat earthworms and slugs. They can have the slugs, lemme tell ya.
They're not only delightfully harmless, but very very mellow snakes.
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