The third and final prickly pear cactus blossom. Looks like there might be three pears to harvest this year. Also, there is a new resident living in the carport. Came out one day and she was resting on the car window. I shooed her away. She stayed.
Category: Doodads
Doodads — bike ride in GR with fam
Transported the bike to GR and took a wonderful bike ride with younger son and my granddaughter yesterday. The weather was perfect. We rode through neighborhoods and ended up on Kent Trails that runs along the Grand River (which empties out into Lake MI in Grand Haven.)
Doodads — pics from past week
Some pics taken last Sunday when the fam and I went to the lake and then for ice cream afterwards. The grandbaby loved “swimming” in Lake Michigan and spent most the time in a shallow pool. The next pic of the kousa dogwood tree in blossom were taken at the dentist. It took some finagling…
Doodads — Sunday weekly video and photo
So much to take pics and video of, it’s hard to keep ahead of it. Here’s a mish-mash of the past week. Videos I’ve been uploading to YouTube: And the final, surprise video. This is a cool solar-powered flame hot air balloon younger son and his wife bought me last year or the year…
Doodads — ordinary bits and pieces plus
Yesterday I walked around the yard and took some pics of the usual but also some of stuff you’ve heard me talking about but haven’t shown pics of. They are in no particular order, but all of them come from the yard.
Doodads — Saturday Stroll in and out 051824
First pic is of the dawn redwood, now a year old. I learned that they have leaves that look like evergreens but they drop them in the fall, like larch. The tallest one, you can see the bright green on the stem/trunk which is the new growth this year. I also planted some seeds from…
Doodads — witch hazel, prickly pear, and more
Friday and Saturday were spent mowing, trimming, and hauling bricks to the middle of the yard to build a foundation for the Amish-made lighthouse that has replaced the eroding, ant-infested wishing well my stepfather built for me many moons ago. When the wood-shingled roof of it fell off last fall, a plan to replace emerged. …
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