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Jun 15, 2010

A Bright New Day!

You guys are still here? I didn't scare you off with my rant? Well, thank you! My husband got a kick out of that post but wasn't able to see the comments from the ship so he requested I copy & send them - see, it's not only me that loves hearing your take on matters at home. Seriously, you guys are a great sounding board, and I woke up to a shiny new day ready to take on the world, or at least my garden. Slightly less humidity for today only, the weatherman says, so I took the opportunity to dig some of my container tomatoes into the bare ground, trying to save them. Only time will tell if they live through my mistreatment, but now I know it is just too hot and humid to container-grow tomatoes here. Live and learn. I got to walk around the garden a bit today with my camera, here are some of the things brightening my day today:


Kenneth the Guerrilla Gardener must have visited me because I sure don't remember planting any lilies!


Lots of dragonflies this week

Remember my baby dove? Here she is venturing out of her basket, perched on a bamboo fence

She is growing fast, soon to be foraging around the garden with me while I do my chores. Unfortunately, one day when the mama flew out of the nest, I saw one of the 2 babies was dead, so mama watched me as I removed it, but she came right back to parent the other.

Time for me to go, Finn's preschool "graduation" is in an hour, and I figure I might want to get presentable, i.e. maybe no bugs in my hair and tomato leaf stains all over my hands, LOL!
Pictures of that to follow soon...

5 comments:

  1. Awwww..that baby dove is so darn cute!!

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  2. Lovely photos. I just read your rant from yesterday......PEOPLE...what else can I say??

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  3. Loving the dragonfly pics! That is too bad about the baby dove that died, I wonder what happened?

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  4. Wonderful pictures - in my mind life doesn't get any better than this. Peace

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  5. What gorgeous lilies! I really need to start growing something besides vegetables around here.

    Beautiful pictures, adorable baby dove. I get attached to our wild baby birds, too. It's always sad to lose one. We try to keep robins from nesting on our patio now, we've had too many heartbreaking incidents when the babies fall from the nests. I swear, if another robin happens to nest out there, I'm building a hammock to catch those babies!

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