Category: Flowers
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Watermelon, pumpkins, flowers, bluebirds, Red Fox, Frog legs, and Evergreen, CO
Amazing what a little water can do! Bruce watered this watermelon and saw a visible difference in size overnight. All of the pumpkins below are the same variety (Dill’s Atlantic giant). They were harvested at different ages. The bright orange (below left weighting 55 pounds) had its leaves eaten by the goats, but was harvested…
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Pumpkin eating goats, flowers, bush beans, baby bluebirds update, Deer and Fires in CO, Cave of the Winds, and family
After dental impressions, we are pretty sure the goats are the culprit in eating the pumpkin leaves and taking a bite out of our pumpkin. Next year, the pumpkins will be planted where the vines do not enter the goat yard. Below: Picture #1 is the pumpkin patch behind the barn. There are little pumpkins…
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Watermelon, Humming birds, Mule deer, Good manners, and a quick lunch recipe
Our biggest watermelon (below) is 6 inches long. It has quit doubling in size, but it is still growing. As promised, we now use a ruler to show the actual size since pictures alone do not tell the true story. We also have a 4 inch melon. Hopefully there are more watermelons to be found.…
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Flying, driving, crawling, swimming, and populating the gardens.
Heddie Logan (HL) is taking Ann Raleigh (AR) to see her doctors in Boston. Looks like AR (below right) has found a bottle meant for older passengers. I am sure HL will retrieve that bottle after this picture! Trip is driving, Kennan is shotgun, and mom has been sent to the backseat. Looks like they…
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Pressure and Altitude, Flowers, Soccer Camp, Pine CO
Science TIP: Pressure and Altitude: When you blow up a balloon, each puff increases the pressure or number of air molecules in that balloon. The molecules in the balloon are closer together than the molecules outside the balloon and these molecules begin to spread out until they are about the same distance apart (and pressure)…
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BIRTHDAY, Bluebirds, pumpkins, figs, watermelon, and birds.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Nick!! We are not positive, but we think NICK likes donuts. The Geiers are still enjoying the Lake in Alabama. Teleworking adults definitely has its advantages for the younger generation. Look at our precious bluebirds that hatched a few days ago. If you notice, the 4th egg never hatched. The three bluebirds still…
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Tomatoes, Bobcat, Turkeys, Sunflowers, Watermelons, Corn and St. Barths.
Mark and Paula (Hammond, Louisiana) shared pictures of their cherry tomatoes. Looks like quite a crop. One of our Moultrie cameras captured a picture of a bobcat. We have seen this bobcat in pictures before, but this is the best daytime picture of him that we have. It has been very hot so far this…
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Bluebirds-Just out the shell! Also heron, flowers, herbs, snake, berries, pumpkins.
The bird below is a Little Blue Heron. How can that be, that bird is WHITE?? Well, it is a juvenile or an immature Little Blue Heron. When this bird matures, it will turn blue. These tiny bluebirds (below) hatched this morning. They are still waiting for the 4th egg to open. They look much…
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Big Fish, but Bigger Shark!
It looks like something took a bite out of Trip’s fish! Pretty sure the culprit was a decent size shark. Cousins Aidan, AMPD, and Rowan (below) are still enjoying Lake Keowee. Did you know that watermelon have male and female flowers just like pumpkins. Just like pumpkins, the female flower has a bulb below the…
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Fireworks! Honoring Mr. Ruiz, and a little about flowers.
Plaquemine had fireworks for the 4th of July. After a week in the heat without water, this Periwinkle was very unhappy (left). But look at the same plant two hours later after getting watered (right). Amazing that this plant could bounce back that fast. This is a striped Barbados Lilly (below) which is a species…