MaChatte and her tunnel…………
Here’s a very young MaChatte in her tunnels. A grocery store here has a $1 section, and there I bought this nylon tunnel, about 1 1/2′ long. That was fun, […]
The old maple tree……..
I had to take down a 50 year old sliver maple last fall, cos it was diseased and there was no treatment. It was sad. But the stump supports some other forms of life. […]
Nature includes so many wonders……
Many little seeds are graceful and slow to have their seedlings appear into the world. Some are such teeny little sprouts that you can hardly see them at first. If […]
Time for bamboo to send new shoots up
Every spring after the ground has warmed up and there’s been a few good rains, the bamboo begins to shoot up from the ground. It is a highly invasive plant […]
Collards, up close and personal
Now’s when the things growing inside the rabbit fence start to look more interesting……..interesting enough to make a rabbit make a plan! Let’s see what happens now……..and how my rabbit fence really works.
Neat things happening in the yard!
Out on the bird feeder was a gold finch, and I raced for the camera! These are around this area all the time, but not so much in town as […]
An old tool brings up a story……….
This pair of tree trimmers have always been called loppers in the family, more specifically Pap’s loppers. They would probably be about a hundred years old, cos Pap would be well over […]
Lovage
Here’s an interesting plant. It’s a perennial herb called lovage. Tastes very much like really strong celery. It will get yellow flowers in the fall and the seeds that come from it […]
MaChatte’s new game
We play a game called This One. Let’s get This One, here’s This One, etc. What This One is, is a ring off a milk jug. When you screw the […]
Grafted cherry tree
There is an old cherry tree in the yard that used to be half white and half pink flowers. Some of the grafted part has died out over the years […]
Sarasin's thoughts....... 