Rain Lily

Sunday in the meadow

Pine in Sun

I Never Tire of Taking Pictures of Hamilton's Mouth

It is so spectacularly large. 

Re spotty posting: computer still broken. Testing now to see if solution has perhaps been found...

Hummingbirds Are Suddenly Back with a Vengeance

Hamilton and his mouth (photo of that to come) almost got one of these little guys this evening; fortunately I heard, and there was no carnage. I thought his birding days were over; perhaps this was just a fluke.

Woodie 2009

Here he is...our 2009 woodpecker dad. He is a rather large specimen; I wonder if he's the same as last year's Woodie. He's been sleeping in the tree all winter; these days he is spending a lot of time calling out to the ladies and drumming on our chimney cap to mark his territory. And so it begins again...


This tree is the staging tree, not the nesting tree. He spends a lot of time eating insects from this tree.

Finches Nest in the Yucca

This finch is nesting in the yucca (and look, over her shoulder on the left is the female oriole). If you zoom in to the top image, you will see the straw in her mouth. In the second picture, she is leaving, after having put the straw in the space between the two yucca heads where their daggers intertwine.


And my computer is broken...again. This might be the last post for a week or two.

I Present Exhibit 1

This is the largest of the little brown recluse mummies.


Family photo

Teacup Full of Brown Recluses

This is a TEACUP full of DEAD BROWN RECLUSES that was IN MY KITCHEN CUPBOARD. Hugh found it today. There are some other photos but I am just too tired and too appalled to write anything else about this right now. This says it all anyway, I think.

Higher and Higher

Taken Sunday afternoon

An Armadillo Den?

I found this hole under an oak tree on Sunday, quite close to the house; I suspect that it's the home of our armadillo.

Oh, the Excitement!

While I was finishing up in the meadow today I suddenly spied a Scott's oriole over by the house! They are back! Or she is back, anyway. I did not see the mister, but we hope that we will wake up tomorrow morning to their song. The kettle is on now; soon I will make sugar water, then fill and put out their feeder.


Also, while I made this and the previous post, two hummingbirds came to their feeder on the porch. It seems that not all of them actually leave for the winter, so we always leave their feeder up all year; but these are the first I have seen for perhaps a couple of months.

The Sweetest Cat (Today, Anyway)

Fritz stayed close as I worked outside today. It is essentially spring!

Yucca Still in Bloom

Sunday on the patio...the yucca blooms are higher every day!

Another New Moth

New Moth

This moth was nestled on the ledge of the kitchen window in such a way and angle that caused great difficulty in photographing (as you can probably see). It is one that is new to me, or at least I don't recall seeing one like it before; but honestly, there are SO many every year that I may well have seen one and just don't remember.