Category: flora

Doodads — August Toads Plus

I mentioned spotting lots of baby toads and many butterflies around the property when I mowed last week.  The monarchs seem to have moved on since then but others are still fluttering here and there.  Toads are much easier to photograph.  The pics posted today are all different ones.  What’s impressive is that they were…

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Doodads — Queen Anne and Witch Hazel

Do you ever wonder why they name plants after women?  I just wondered when I saw the two flora I am including are named Queen Anne and Witch Hazel.  Anyway… the first pic is a lovely patch of lace out near the road.  It grows all over here. There is a plant that has gone…

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FFF 45 — Molly Tuttle new song plus!

I’m on the Nonesuch mailing list, which is Molly Tuttle’s label.  This morning I listened to a new tune from her new solo album, “So Long, Little Miss,” called, “The Highway Knows.”  Is there such a thing as love at first listen? Most of the following pics were taken today.  As you can see, the…

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Dawn Redwood at fmg

Anybody who has read my blog for any length of time has heard me go on and on about the gardens and feeding the koi at the waterfall pond. Last Tuesday I realized the whole area around the pond has a stand of dawn redwood trees. How could I have failed to see them before?…

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Birdhouse Gourds

Dotty had surgery yesterday, to remove a mammary tumor.  She wasn’t recovering as well as they wanted so they suggested she spend the night there.  I picked her up this morning, but when I saw all of the open blossoms on the birdhouse gourd plants I had to take a pic.  This is more blossoms…

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Mid-June Miss Toad

Mid-June, while doing a plant check around the yard, I found Miss Toad hunkered down amongst the new prickly pear cacti.  She stayed there for a number of days, but now she is gone.  I think she chose a dangerous but safe place to rest.  I wonder where she is now? soft and warty cool…

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