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Dark-Eyed Junco.
A sparrow-sized bird at 5 to 6 1/2 inches long. Variable but generally slate-gray or gray-brown above with a white abdomen sharply separated from the gray of the breast and a pink bill. The white along the sides of the tail shows in flight. Some birds have buff flanks. Birds of the dominent western form, the "Oregon Junco", have black hoods and rufous backs. The form breeding in the Black Hills, the "White-winged Junco", has white wing bars and more white in the tail.
Their habitat consists of coniferous or mixed forests. They winter in fields, gardens, city parks and roadside thickets.
They range from Alaska to Newfoundland and south to Mexico in the west and Georgia in the east. They winter south to the Gulf Coast and into northern Mexico.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.
Taken from my window.
This is a Bohemian Waxwing eating crabapples from my neighbor tree.
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By Catherine Boeckmann
February 9, 2024
The daylily is an amazingly low-maintenance perennial. It’s virtually disease-free, pest-free, and drought-resistant; it’s also not picky about soil quality. Plus, the flower has a long bloom period! Here’s how to plant and care for daylilies in your garden, as well as how to easily propagate them for more plants!
About Daylilies
The daylily’s botanical name, Hemerocallis, comes from the Greek hemera (“day”) and kallos (“beauty”). The name is appropriate since each flower lasts only one day! However, each scape has 12 to 15 buds on it, and a mature plant can have 4 to 6 scapes, which is why the flower seems to bloom continuously.
Originally from Asia, these plants have adapted so well that many of us think of them as natives. Imagine the excitement of a 16th-century explorer cruising the Orient and finding these gorgeous plants! European gardeners welcomed daylilies into their gardens, and when early colonists sailed for the New World, daylilies made the crossing with them.
Despite their name, daylilies are not “true lilies” and grow from fleshy roots. True lilies grow from onion-like bulbs and are of the genus Lilium, as are Asiatic and Oriental lilies. In the case of daylilies, leaves grow from a crown, and the flowers form on leafless stems—called “scapes”—which rise above the foliage.
There are thousands of beautiful daylilies to choose from. Combine early, midseason, late blooming varieties, and repeat bloomers to have daylilies in flower from late spring through the first frost of fall. If you see a height listed alongside a daylily variety, this refers to the length of the scape. Some can reach 6 feet tall!
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These Daylilies were photographed at Pashley Manor Gardens. At Pashley you will discover 11 acres of beautiful borders and vistas – the culmination of a lifetime of passion for gardening, an appetite for beauty and an admiration of the tradition of the English Country garden. These graceful gardens, on the border of Sussex and Kent, are family owned and maintained – visitors often express delight at the attention to detail displayed throughout and the intimate, peaceful atmosphere.
All the ingredients of the English Country Garden are present – sweeping herbaceous borders, ha-ha, well maintained lawns, box hedges, espaliered rose walk, historic walled garden, inspiring kitchen garden, venerable trees and the Grade I listed house as a backdrop. The gardens are a haven for wildlife – bees, butterflies and small birds as well as moor hens, ducks and a black swan. Then, of course, the plants! Borders overflowing with perennials and annuals – the look changing through the seasons, but always abundantly filled, and each garden ‘room’ planted in a different colour theme.
Pashley is also renowned for fantastic displays of tulips, roses and dahlias. Our annual Tulip Festival features more than 48,000 tulips this year! During Special Rose Week over a hundred varieties of rose swathe the walls, climb obelisks and bloom in flower beds. Then in late summer our Dahlia Days event transforms the gardens once more with bountiful, brightly coloured dahlias in every border and pot.
Add to all this a Café and Terrace with excellent garden views, serving delicious homemade lunches, scones and cakes; Sculpture and Art Exhibitions; a Gift Shop with Plant Sales; and a friendly, knowledgeable team waiting to welcome you, and the recipe for a wonderful day out is complete.
For more information please visit www.pashleymanorgardens.com/
I have worked about 2 hours on this picture, it is my first texture and
the texture comes likewise of a bush in my garden, see pictures below ......
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I wish you all a very nice evening and a good start in the new week !
We have had a great deal of rain lately along the Sunshine Coast of BC. And, when the temperature cooperates, fog will result. I find weather events to be both exciting and challenging at the same time. A photographer can not venture out to get an obvious shot but rather, must be more creative.
When I set out in the early morning with a few destinations in mind, the fog was already thick in some stops. I only made it to Trout Lake, which is minutes from home, where conditions were already changing the landscape. Standing on the shores of Trout Lake, I watched far side disappear while the fog rolled in. This was a good a spot to let nature work her magic, so the hours went by while the fog kept rolling.
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Having seen the train down in Palu we drove (carefully down the hill haha) down to Beyhan station to find DE33 071 and DE24 356 still waiting with their mixed freight. A chat with the driver whilst the second man went to the local shop revealed what we assumed in that the train was headed for Tatvan. Beyhan is a small village in the Murat valley, located near to a fairly new dam. A key feature of the village that couldn't be missed off a photo is the local mosque. Quite an impressive building! It seems however that the station has some posts erected maybe for the planned electrification of the route? Not great at all if so!
Black-throated Mango (male) - Widespread but uncommon. Occurring throughout the tropics of South America from Panama to northeast Argentina, the Black-throated Mango is the most widespread member of its genus, and among the most widespread of all hummingbirds. It is primarily found in open vegetation with bushes and scattered trees in many kinds of humid and dry habitats. Despite its widespread distribution, the species shows almost no geographic variation due perhaps to its impressive dispersal capabilities. Migratory, they are seen in São Paulo during spring / summer.
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To really love a woman
To understand her
You gotta know her deep inside
Hear every thought
See every dream
And give her wings
When she wants to fly
Then when you find
Yourself layin' helpless in her arms
You know you really love a woman
When you love a woman you tell her
That she's really wanted
When you love a woman
You tell her that she's the one
'Cause she needs somebody to tell her
That it's gonna last forever
So tell me have you ever really
Really, really ever loved a woman?
To really love a woman
Let her hold you
'Til ya know how she needs to be touched
You've gotta breathe her, really taste her
'Til you can feel her in your blood
And when you can see your
Unborn children in her eyes
You know you really love a woman
I Have had the pleasure of photographing all the Uk Butterflies 2017/2018
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I have a great fondness for these tiny birds they are our smallest member of our european hirundines (martins and swallows ). They are mostly found around water where they nest in sandy banks or buildings. Caught this little beauty hawking for insects .
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Having made quite a few trips to the KCS over the last 5 years, it's getting to the point where I've shot the Vicksburg bridge about every way possible. Did realize that one thing I haven't included in the scene on any previous visits is the parallel cantilever truss that carries traffic on Interstate 20, opened in 1973 43 years after the railroad bridge.
So I think I have finally defeated the flea bags (squirrels) as I never saw a one at the feeders yesterday (there are four all together). And it was amazing how many more birds showed up to feed! I have two squirrel proof feeders and the suet cage and then I scatter some seeds on the ground as lots of the birds like to eat there. Cardinals do both but seem to prefer the ground. The Squirrels would come and gobble all the ground seeds up and then to the top of the pole to eat the suet. What did I do? I bought a big bottle of Cayenne pepper! I rubbed it on the suet and mixed it with the ground seeds. My ground is now red with the stuff but the squirrels... ha! They seem to have taken themselves off back into the woods to eat their natural foods. :) I hope I never see one again and if I do, I will be sure to greet it with lots of the hot stuff! I may sound mean to some, but the bird seed has gone beyond expensive and I buy it for birds not squirrels. And seriously, there is plenty of their natural foods around the area. There were four of the male cardinals yesterday. :)
Ah! Yes! Perhaps I should have stayed a bit longer in the Hortus and had myself a hot chocolate against the chill of walking in the garden. But having to cook a meal for a guest tonight it was wiser to return home...
And neither did I get even a whiff of chocolate from this Chocolate Vine now in full blossom. It gets its English vernacular name from the purported aroma but perhaps there's too much chill today. Our plant was first described for the West under the name Rajania quinata by Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828) whom I've often mentioned in these pages. He put together a marvelous Flora Japonica (1784) in which he discusses the plants he found in Japan during his stay on the island of Dejima (in the harbor of Nagasaki) in the service of the Dutch East Indies Trading Company (VOC).
Having been stuck in hospital with Pneumonia for the last three weeks I'm finally home. I can't do much apart from revisit some older pictures so I hope you'll bear with me on my recovery.
We have had no measurable snowfall in our area since March 15th. The previous record for the date of the latest snowfall was December 20th in 2012. It is supposed to rain overnight tonight, with rain (possibly snow?) on Tuesday.
For any folks that might appreciate winters here, I have dug up this unposted shot. It's a memory from 8 years ago tomorrow. That was the winter of the "Polar Vortex" when Lake Michigan was more than 93 percent iced over.
Hope you are having a nice Boxing Day Sunday!
Hope that you had a happy Christmas Day with many memories.