Saturday, May 31, 2008

More (yes, more) new plants

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These I bought at the plant sale this morning: a Bishop's Hat plant ( Epimedium ) -- likes shady, woody places a Balloon Flower ( Platyc...
Thursday, May 29, 2008

Plant sale!!!!! (And somewhere to donate your extras)

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William Floyd Community Summit Beautification Committee PERENNIAL PLANT SALE Saturday May 31st 2008 10:00 am to 4:00 pm We are lookin...
Wednesday, May 28, 2008

... find something new every day...

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... and if it tastes good, eat it. I thought the compost heap was composting-down nicely. It was defiitely shrinking. No. The deer are eati...

Rainbow

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... from sometime this sunny, rainy, windy, stormy, sunny week.

More street scenes

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Not so green, but still somehow organic.

Street gardens

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Was in the city last week, meeting cousin Kerry and Jane, visiting from England. Took time to notice the little (and not-so-little) gardens ...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

A few notes

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Been away from keyboard; keeping the tendonitis at bay. Just watching the changes, changing... been here (almost, not quite) a year. So I ha...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

The new birds on the block

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Recent (re)arrivals include: Catbirds ( http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/557/_/Gray_Catbird.aspx ) Yellow warblers (I think--they move very ...
Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Big (grey, furry, fuzzy-tailed) bird

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So this is the "bird" that is making such a mess of the bowl of birdseed close to the office door. It's usually the cardinals ...

How To Be A Gardener--a book review

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I am reading Alan Titchmarsh's "How to be a Gardener", published by the American Horticultural Society, and with the note, ...
Saturday, May 17, 2008

This is just a "Before"

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There is no "after", yet. It's under the office and deck, looking towards the boiler room. Lots of space for... something shed...

Bachelors' buttons, geranium-pelargoniums

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Flowers!

The woodpile, at last

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Before... ... after several hours of sorting and hammering in the old nails. Looks about the same, doesn't it? Kept thinking, one bite...

Arrival of the horseshoe crabs

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There were quite a few on the beach today, alive and crawling. Usually it's just the empty shells, like war helmets, curved in the sand....
Friday, May 16, 2008

All my own fault

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It is. All My Own Fault. I knew the two pots of tulips were still within deers' reach... and I had learned that while deer dislike daff...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Gone fishin'

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Dog fishing. Just found Fury standing in the shallow end of the pond, happily watching the fish. She was wet all over, so either she'd s...
Monday, May 12, 2008

High tide

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Looking back up Park Drive from where it curves towards Riviera Drive Park Drive looking towards Riviera Drive and Lincoln Drive Riviera Dr...

Did you lose your boat?

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It is slowly drifting south, across the marshes, towards the Great South Bay. The ducks are keeping an eye on it, and the swans may adopt it...

Very-wetlands

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This is why we need to protect the wetlands. Because they protect us. This is at 4 p.m, wind still from north-east, inflating the tide and ...

At least no tornadoes here

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We have scary-high winds this morning; been blowing all night. The windows on the east side are creaking. Forecast gusts up to 50 mph, some ...