We have a spider that hangs out on our Hibiscus bush. It is a very welcome spider, and especially welcome to eat the insects that come to eat my flowers. I am pleased with this photo because the backlighting really highlights the spider and the petals.
I took a bunch of photos of flowers as I toured the meadow. The one that cracks me up is the purple thistle growing through the deer statue’s haunch. I really like the look of the purple thistles, reminds me of Scotland.
I didn’t realize that bluebonnets form seed pods like peas. Hm.
I took a walk around the yard to see what our Spring showers brought us.
We have bluebonnets! Not in a place I expected, tucked up against the trees near the road, but maybe they will spread.
I have three ironweeds sprouting this year! These are in the meadow, and in a place we don’t mow. I only had two last year, but they grew chest height and bloomed purple.
The surprise finding was the pumpkin vines poking out around the compost heap. Hm. It will be interesting to see how far they make it, as I don’t water over there and it doesn’t get that much sun. Here is for a pleasantly wet spring.
Yup, it is definitely Spring. Everything outside is yellow with oak pollen and everyone’s allergies are on high alert.
The picture above is of my usually black metal bench that sits by my front door, under an overhang. It is currently dusty yellow from all the oak pollen, despite having some protection and not being directly under an oak tree. We have Post Oak and Cedar Elm in the yard. The Cedar Elm has already spread its confetti of seeds, so I guess it is now the oak’s turn.
It must be spring here, our noses are stuffy, there are flowers blooming, and Malt the corn snake is refusing to eat. All sure signs.
It is on the list to clean out this front flower bed. The abelia bushes did not make the winter, so need to be replaced. The hibiscus needs to be trimmed back, as well as the honeysuckles. Hello Spring.
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