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More or less straight out of the camera. I kind of dig all the green... especially after the winter we had.
Malta is the most Catholic of all Mediterranean islands, with places of worship found in many backyards.
Nailed up to the branch on the Boysenberry. When the fruit ripens and ferments the racoons who live in the trunk get all drunk, climb on the swing and scream at each other.
After adding ground cover and a few flowers and a lamp post, there's a totally different 'feel' to this backyard. NOte that the patio now looks like a nice place to sit as opposed to a stark slab of concrete with no landscape plants around it as in the original yard.
Pesky backyard Blue-crowned Conures...they hog the feeders, eat all the seed and make quite a racket. I'm not a great fan of them or the Nanday Parakets that come in..............
After round two. The junk has been removed. I also moved the woodpile from under the wood-and-licorice-fern structure to the front yard (to use as nurse logs for bugs and as erosion control along the grapevine-fence). I also pulled a bunch of ivy from along the fence, cut back the spurge laurel as far as I could with hand clippers, and cut back the blackberry behind the wood/licorice fern fence, to make it easier to get the junk and ivy out from between our fence and Portland Nursery's fence.
This is the second season this deer has come to visit us. We were happily suprised to see it had survived since it has a very bad left rear leg which it drags when it walks. Other people have seen it and said it had fawns last year. Nature is amazing.