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Nice cropping!

I had no idea milkweed could be so beautiful

The baby is more important than adults

The deer seem to like the flowers. Dessert maybe?

Bearded iris and daffodils have been mostly immune. I have discovered dug up iris, but was thinking it was done by raccoons.

I had put it out for the butterflies and bees, and hummingbirds. Very aggravating.

Before and After

I've had lantana before and the deer didn't bother it. I put these lovely plants in about 4 days ago, and look at what I woke up to.

Brown thrashers are kind of plain looking, but they have a beautiful melodious song.

He was an usher at the Biograph theater the night John Dillinger was shot.

If I am partway through and I find myself skimming sections, it’s time to give up on it.

So nice to see wetlands protected.

My dad grew up in this area, I always heard this street name when he would tell about it. He was born in 1916 and lived there through the depression and prohibition. What a time and place!

Gardeners Welcome
#humor

#ColorfulMonday

Have a relaxing #goaturday

A work of art!

I love the care and creativeness they use to build their nest.

I had a Phoebe check this spot out several times, it is facing in towards our porch. The box makes it easier for them.

This is the bird box where the Carolina wren has built her nest. I think it is interesting that the entrance is on the side. I don't see her often, she is more shy than the phoebes are.
#wildlife #birds

Unfortunately, that’s the only way I can wait out all this mess.

I am in North Georgia and haven't seen any! I was thinking I was in the clear but maybe not.

#talltreetuesday

New yellow-green leaves against a blue sky.

All my cats have been gray tabbies. They have such nice and mellow personalities.

Love those classic tabby looks! white nose and toes

They certainly have settled in to home life.

What an honor!

My hummingbird feeder is up a long set of stairs up to the deck. Thank goodness he hasn't figured that out! the bears will tilt the feeders and drink the syrup,

I feel like we moved into their neighborhood. We are careful about not feeding them, I have to pull my bird feeders inside every night when I have them out. What's funny is I got trail cameras to put out in the woods, hoping to see them, but now I just place the cameras on my porch.

This is a shot my husband took a few weeks back. This guy (or gal) has become a frequent visitor...thank goodness we have a sturdy bear-proof trash can!

He is a teenager, I think, seems to be about 3 feet tall at the shoulder.

#wildlife

Thanks Anne!

I just saw a Carolina wren is nesting in a bird box on my deck. I think babies are a ways off. So sweet!

I have more pics! wait til next week

And I didn't even know it was Goaturday.

Tooooo cute!

They were so small and sweet to hold!

Just a couple of farm yard cuties.

What a sleaze.

Now if he would pay up!

It's a good day to die!

Have you no honor?

Are you familiar with the painter Charles Schiller? you might like his stuff

I'd guess 12 or 15 ft. around.

This is in the cemetery that has my family plots. The tree could date from the 1850s.

Hope my local bears don't figure this out.

Has she learned to come down butt first?

#talltreetuesday

Check out the size of this ponderosa pine in Hunters, WA. Note the benches at the bottom for scale. Wow!

Blue Voters in Georgia

There is an election today and we have a chance to put a pro-choice judge on the state Supreme Court.

Get out and vote for John Barrow to give reproductive rights a chance in this state.