Temp 55.4° ☺
Worked in the yard all day long since morning, thatching and planting, the grass was dry and with little hope of signficant rain I had to start watering the front and back lawns for the 1st time this year. I had already started to water the small gardens a couple of weeks ago when the tulips started to get big. I hope along with ngam we dont have an exceptionally dry summer.
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Me too. There was a 'high' chance of fire posted at the hiking trailhead.
Pond waterfalls.
Longer exposure.
looks like a creepy cave waterfall from a movie.... very cool!
Is there any significance to dead woolybears?
I've found "a million" woolybears already. I just toss them into the leaf pile at the edge of the yard.
It was another great day in the garden and after 8 hours I could see the changes. Today will be 58 degrees and I'm thankful not to have had the 93 degrees that Polly had yesterday!
52 and overcast. Wow - 93?!
light clouds 63* a high in the 70's today
Jo Ann
Yes, Victor. It was not a typo.
Birds are crazy now. The rush to nest and find a mate is making them crazy. I was standing near a barely leafed Vibernum and a chickadee came and landed on a branch near my nose. Then he hopped on my head. Must have been looking for nesting material LOL :)
93! I'd have to stay inside for that.
Getting some gardening done here today - 70 and sunny.
61 and cloudy. Unfortunately, no rain and none in the forecast.
We broke a 119 year record high yesterday it was 86. Thought we would get rain today, but not yet.
rain comming next week debi
No rain here, but the wind is quite strong and it feels humid. The sun finally broke through about an hour and a half ago and really warmed things up. The thermometer says 70, but the wind makes it quite comfortable. We need some rain, and soon.
We were overcast today but no rain. Ge, you're right. The birds are in a frenzy. I had a mockingbird sing from 10 pm to 4 am Friday night. And I heard EVERY song. No songs last night so maybe he got lucky. I got some sleep.
OMG that's all nite.
We have had a warm day some clouds and breezes not wind.
I am officially a "redneck" from all the planting.
The weather has been beautiful in N. GA and Atlanta. I'm trying to learn to use a camera and post pics. Steve is saying he can't keep up with the chronic requests to compress my files :). So here's a try. If I upload twenty year pictures of a child's kindergarten play...just stay with me here. I even took the picture myself,
So, here's a walk in the woods at Maypop...
You ahve nothing to apologize for. That is beautiful.Light and composition are great.
Laurel - that is a beautiful photo of the woods at Maypop. How did Maypop get its name?
I made the first gardens a bit at a time with a pick-maddock (sp?). I was tearing out an old gravel road bed to grow vegetables and flowers. Each year I added four to eight feet. From the first year, nineteen years ago and every year there after, as the garden expanded, strange vines would pop up here and there. Two, four, six and so on. They were no where else on the property and did not grow there while the garden was a road bed. To this day the wild maypops are there as sure as Spring. Some in the same place and some not, but never anywhere else on seventeen acres except the garden. Magic! It must be Maypop Garden and I must be MaypopLaurel. How else would you explain it?
Weeze, you almost made me spit on the screen with your mockingbird tale. Too funny...I didn't realize they sang ALL night, thanks for teaching me something new today! LOL
A walk in the woods at Maypop looks very peaceful, lovely!
Very pretty Laurel. Looks like a great place to stroll. That's funny, Weeze - but not if you can't sleep! I never experienced anything like that.
Weeze, were your windows open so that you could hear that bird? They can get a bit frenetic at night. Maybe odd bird out?
Our pollen is so terrible in Atlanta, at this time of year, we can't have windows open. The house would turn yellow. Did I do this rant before, because I hate to rant online (too often). As they develop Atlanta, the insect pollinated, natural landscape is being replaced with wind pollinated, artificial landscape. This is giving us the highest pollen count in the country. Not uncommon to see folks walking around in masks, like in Japan. And thus goes the planet.
But the pollen is still coming from the trees. Are there more trees in the city now??
I hear you, Laurel! We have the same problem (in May). Development, absolutely. I won't go on a rant, promise. - Lynn
Do Bradford pears, crepe myrtles, and JM's count? It takes a good number of them to replace the one hundred plus year old red and white oaks, hickory, Southern pine and ancient magnolias that are being razed. The development and pollution is starting to effect native species in our beloved foothills. Pollen is low eighty five miles north of here compared to being in the city.
One of the differences in opinion we might have North/South garden wise is my opinion of non-natives. Granted I have a bunch of potted JM's over ten years old on my decks here in Atlanta, one in-ground on a side entry and others popping up everywhere, but I'm becoming more wary about planting the latest greatest nursery offerings and trying to learn to cultivate indigenous plants. Not that I never have a weak moment mind you.
L
P.S. Must include a photo of something even if it's not properly sized. Hmmm let me look. How about this?
Oh, that would be large mouth bass swimming through the trees.
I couldn't agree more about over-development. We moved here right before it started. Would not have if I knew. Really ashamed about the old trees. I am into natives as well, but there are lots of nice exotics that are not invasive. My garden has many natives.
Thanks for clarifying that! I wasn't sure what I was supposed to see.
Non-native species that are not invasive are OK by me if they are specimen plants. But I think we need to concentrate on planting the local natives and not those from other parts of our country which can lead to allergies and problems we hadn't anticipated. Take a look at what's happening in the southwest as people from the north move in and decide they must have grass and other things not native to that area. If they wanted green, they should have stayed north! It's the desert, for heaven's sake! Same type of thing in other parts of the country.
Nice photos---sorry about the development--here, too. When I started teaching in town there were about 3200--now it's 7200--over a 40 year span--but we have no land in town--it is one of the smallest townships in CT--developers are building now on the ridges---spoiled our view to the west--70 here today, but now 59. Dry-- I was watering this evening--new plantings & roses. Did not plant the veggies because of the dryness--will have to wait until Fri.
I promised not to go on a rant. This is a bug-a-boo of mine.
The garden in Atlanta has it's share of "exotics". The garden at Maypop has few, if any. Can't think of any at this time but as I post photos over time, feel free to dress me down. I'll probably tear them out.
So another story...I taught Steve about ramp hunting (wild leeks) and when we realized ramps were disappearing, we dug a bunch up and planted them at Maypop. They flourished for years and we had ramps every Spring. They are now gone and I don't know where to hun more. We used to have lots of 'sang (ginseng) on the property too, but the 'sang hunters poach that with the deer. There might come a time when our communal liberal philosophy will clash with our basic individual rights philosophy and I'll pull out that "wicked" Red Ryder in the Beaver Cleaver room :).
Years ag
We have lots of ramps growing in my woods. I need to find the recipe for using them. Too bad skunk cabbage isn't good for much of anything - we're loaded with that, too.
You don't need a recipe for ramps, but a fresh bit garlic (not from a jar) warmed in extra virgin olive oil and a toss makes them good on their own. Over oven roasted potatoes, or chilled and on top of a salad adds the yum factor. If you need a hundred other recipes for ramps, please DMmail as this is one of those rare indigenous foods that we are privileged to eat without the FDA and USDA getting in the WAAY.
OK, now you've got me going.
|L
They are leeks, correct?
