This and That: A Blog

 April's theme for Thursday Postcard Hunt is Colors of Spring.  This week the color is Pink .  This bull terrier has a lot of p ink!  I got this Postcrossing card from Dirk in Germany. Pink Peonies Peonies are the official state flower of Indiana. Pink Tulips on an antique greeting postcard.  Pink Shell With Seaweed , Georgia O'Keefe, 1937 Next week the color will be Yellow .

Another batch of random garden and other stuff photos.   Common Checkered Skipper Skippers are classified as butterflies yet share some features with moths.  Not a bee, this is a Common Hoverfly. Not native to North America, but now they live everywhere but Antarctica. This one is on garlic chive flowers. Wild Grapes ( Vitis californica ) will be turning color soon.  They are too seedy to do much with, and I've yet to see any backyard wildlife eat any.   A Red Tomato on a Green Chair  My son did a couple of hours worth of weed-eating this weekend.  This is a partial done area of the Toss Garden. Under that mess of wild grapes is the strawberry bed.  The rest of the mess is made up of end-of-summer knautia, several kinds of mint, black-eyed Susans... lot of things that will be back.   Speaking of black-eyed Susans... this little one survived the weed-eating!  A single  perfect  New Dawn climbing rose blossom.  I t...

Almost August!  August is my birthday month.  I'm a Leo, but a very poor Leo as far as what we are "supposed" to be like!  A closet Leo maybe, as I do like things done my way.  But, doesn't everyone?  I remember years ago a round-table type thing where we were asked if we had to do something would we " do it the right way, or our way ?"  I said, " What if I think my way is the right way? "  I guess that's a Leo attitude. In the garden. I found a bird's nest on the ground in the Herb Garden area.  Since I fed the seedling lemon cucumbers and tomatoes they have taken off.  I am disappointed in the Lane's Best Super Natural Potting Soil.  I shouldn't have had to feed the plants so soon after planting them.   No cucumbers on the lemon cucumber plants yet, but lots of flowers. One Mystery tomato plant is a large type, with the deformed look of an heirloom.   You know, not the perfect round ones.  The other Mystery is ...