Gardening

[HersheyMint]

I saw him with his horse trailer yesterday driving a lot. I thought he was buying/selling horses. He called me yesterday evening and asked if we knew who could bury a horse. He knew we had lost Dapper Dan recently. I was shocked when I heard the reason he was out and about with his trailer all afternoon. His wife just had a new baby; she's only been home a few days. What a sad thing to happen at that happy time.

It is! I was thinking of you and how soon after DD

 

[Marsha Cassada]

Butterfly on the coneflower. To the left you can see a horn worm on the guaro. The wild flowers are so beautiful right now. I wish I were a photographer. There is a pretty chyrsallis on the petunias. I am told it will be a fritillary butterfly. Lots of pollinators and lizards in the flower beds. Finished picking cherries. Raised beds barren and I'm not even letting a weed grow in them--die, nematodes!

 

[HersheyMint]

Butterfly on the coneflower. To the left you can see a horn worm on the guaro. The wild flowers are so beautiful right now. I wish I were a photographer. There is a pretty chyrsallis on the petunias. I am told it will be a fritillary butterfly. Lots of pollinators and lizards in the flower beds. Finished picking cherries. Raised beds barren and I'm not even letting a weed grow in them--die, nematodes!

No repeat of last year!

 

[Marsha Cassada]

Some rocks I painted a few years ago. I did several, but the paint came off the rest. I wonder why? They were all painted the same. I should wash those off and redo. Finding rocks the right shape for buildings is not that easy.

 

[Marsha Cassada]

A deer silhouette for my native area by the bird bath

 

[Kelly]

Last two orchid blooms still holding on

 

[Marsha Cassada]

A frog in my large pot today. Not sure how he jumped there or where he came from. But fun to see on a lily pad. A leopard frog, I think.

 

[Marsha Cassada]

First harvest of apples, made into applesauce. Second picking is in the dehydrator.

 

[Marsha Cassada]

My applesauce did well at the county fair. I'd love to enter it in the state fair, but it's too far to drive.

 

[HersheyMint]

My applesauce did well at the county fair. I'd love to enter it in the state fair, but it's too far to drive.

Nice, Congratulations!

 

[Marsha Cassada]

Cooler weather and the flowers are perking back up.