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One more picture from our garden...some of our beets are finally ready to eat and they were SO good. As you can see from the picture, my daughter munched on the end of a beet! I love gardening!
Pictures from the my g/f's parent's place just north of town.
Lots of geese, deer, bison (yes that's a picture of a bison!), turtles, those hummingbirds and that obnoxious varmit known as buddhafootus americanus...
Hey!... that last word ended in anus. How appropos
You mean the "horse", Einstein? You can go ahead and call it a horse.
"Hi ho, cow looking thingy...away!"
Sheesh.
-bf
HAHAHAHAHA! I guess I need new glasses. I thought there was a cow standing next to the horse, but I guess it's another horse, huh? I need to lay off the booze at lunch.
I still haven't gotten around to taking pictures of our backyard, but here are some of the flowers from our backyard. My daughter came running into the house with them, telling me she picked flowers for me. The funny part was that she brought in the flowers with all the roots attached, dirt and all, and she picked some of the petals off the flowers. Priceless. Oh, and some of the tomatoes from our backyard. They were DELICIOUS.
I know....we used to live there! We are thrilled to be able to grown our own produce now. And funny you mention corn...the other day, we took an ear of corn, and cut off the corn, mixed it with some tomatoes in a bowl, added salt and it was delicious!
More pictures from me...this is not our home, but we went to a friends farm over the weekend (the lady I get my goats milk from) and had a great time. All of the goats escaped at one point, and being the "city girl" that I am, I was not very good at getting them back into their pen! Our daughter never wanted to leave.
I have to post this picture. My husband saw a Hummingbird Moth out in our yard last night, so he ran out to take a picture, and got this gorgeous picture of the moth getting some nectar from one of our sunflowers.
Here are two hummingbird pictures. The first is a traditional Pacific Northwest variety, but the second!... I managed to capture a picture of the elusive North American Great Hummingbird. A very rare sight indeed!
Here are two hummingbird pictures. The first is a traditional Pacific Northwest variety, but the second!... I managed to capture a picture of the elusive North American Great Hummingbird. A very rare sight indeed!
I love Morning Glorys... They don't grow in the Pacific Northwest like I remember them growing, as a child, in the Midwest.
I've got a picture for you. I don't know what this plant is, so I've been referring to it as the Foreskin Plant or the Erection Plant. I find the name exquisite due to the fact that I get "the look" from my girlfriend whenever we discuss it.
Nope... not daffodils. I tossed the little deal that came with it that stated what type of a flower/plant it was. Now I'm clueless.
But I have seen another one and the whole plant gets really huge.
I also wanted to plant bamboo in the yard - but couldn't think of an aesthetic way of doing so. So, I planted those grasses on each side of the porch. They are "miscanthus gigantus" - and typically grow to be 13 feet in height. How's THAT for blocking out your neighbors???
I thought it might be a lily of some kind but the foliage isn't right. I'm flummoxed. Does the flower have any scent? Usually white flowers have a stronger scent than coloured ones to attract the birds and the bees. It's very cool! I really love it.
Is that a fire pit? If it is that's cool, too. What kinds of things do you do with it?
I don't believe it has much scent - but I will check that out today. I've tried looking things up on the internet - but it's hard to search something that you have to describe with very common terms. I've also seen one of these get huge - like 4' x 4' x 4'.
As for the firepit...
Well, lately, it's just been used for s'mores when kids come over.
Eventually, there will be a bench there and the opportunity to make some fires on cool fall evenings.
I have that and some tiki lights that light up the backyard, on a dark night, quite nicely!
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Pictures from the my g/f's parent's place just north of town.
Lots of geese, deer, bison (yes that's a picture of a bison!), turtles, those hummingbirds and that obnoxious varmit known as buddhafootus americanus...
Hey!... that last word ended in anus. How appropos
-bf
-bf
The "cow looking thing"...
You mean the "horse", Einstein? You can go ahead and call it a horse.
"Hi ho, cow looking thingy...away!"
Sheesh.
-bf
HAHAHAHAHA! I guess I need new glasses. I thought there was a cow standing next to the horse, but I guess it's another horse, huh? I need to lay off the booze at lunch.
Palzang
Thanks for sharing
-bf
Very nice pics, Yoda.
And I have to say... you have some very nice tomatos
-bf
But they do have some good color to them. Must be all the dyes, additives and fertilizers.
Kudos on your green-thumb.
-bf
Bite your tongue!!! We do it all organically. No fertilizers, no chemical, none of that garbage. YOu know me better than that.
PS - it's not MY green thumb...it's my husbands. He deserves all the credit. I just do the cooking and the eating parts.
-bf
Palzang the eremite
Palzang
I love that flower with the petals torn off!!
Looks like they were playing King Of The Hill.
-bf
You sure it's not a big moth or somethin'?
Here are two hummingbird pictures. The first is a traditional Pacific Northwest variety, but the second!... I managed to capture a picture of the elusive North American Great Hummingbird. A very rare sight indeed!
-bf
And...the picture my hubby took was of a Humminbird MOTH. Did you miss that part in my post, or were you just being your funny self?
Palzang
So what song were they humming?
Palzang
Yoga, that pic of the Hummingbird moth is incredible! It's like something out of a photo magazine!!
Fantastic!
I'd better it would be even cooler if we could see the pictures!
-bf
I've got a picture for you. I don't know what this plant is, so I've been referring to it as the Foreskin Plant or the Erection Plant. I find the name exquisite due to the fact that I get "the look" from my girlfriend whenever we discuss it.
Pictures forthcoming...
Oh yeah... and my backyard is done for the year.
-bf
Can't wait to see your pictures...especially of that plant!
If anyone knows what this is really called - let me know.
-bf
I'm done for this year.
-bf
And I have no idea what the real name of that plant is, but it's nice. I think the name you gave it suits it just fine!
Palzang
But I have seen another one and the whole plant gets really huge.
I also wanted to plant bamboo in the yard - but couldn't think of an aesthetic way of doing so. So, I planted those grasses on each side of the porch. They are "miscanthus gigantus" - and typically grow to be 13 feet in height. How's THAT for blocking out your neighbors???
-bf
Is that a fire pit? If it is that's cool, too. What kinds of things do you do with it?
As for the firepit...
Well, lately, it's just been used for s'mores when kids come over.
Eventually, there will be a bench there and the opportunity to make some fires on cool fall evenings.
I have that and some tiki lights that light up the backyard, on a dark night, quite nicely!
-bf