June 2018
Despite the muggy buggy start to each day, I try to get outside and wander around the yard and edges of the woods. It may be a cool 73 degrees but with humidity over 90% that makes the heat index near 90 already. No breeze gives those pesky Asian Tiger mosquitos ample time to penetrate my defenses. Gotta do it tho - I might miss something and the dawn chorus is always entertaining.
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Various photos as I poked around, bending over often to pull weeds and those plants I just don't want more of. After 1.5 hours (the timestamped photos tell me this :) I was soaked thru and ready for a break. Once I eat and rehydrate I go out again and so on but for shorter periods each time.
Fall wildflower
Spring Wildflower
This Gallium is everywhere, sometimes in a huge thicket of really tiny plants. I was gonna toss this fuzzy photo but then I saw the flower. Woohoo, I got a shot of the 1mm flower!
In the background you can see part of the firepit, the woodpile where the Gray Rat snake lived on cold nights, a big seesaw and then the deck looking over the woods. Where I’m standing I call the sideyard.
Back around the house and ready to go in, as I bend over the railing and look down, there’s this Butterflyweed flowering for a second time this spring .
Looking up there is Dog Fennel - very healthy and quite tall. This and the Asclepias have both been fertilized in a manly way a few times this year.
and simply because it is so cute, the Tussock caterpillar again
Ok, almost 11 AM, time to publish, one more proofread and then it goes. Thanks for stopping by this morning and see ya in the comments.
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