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It's probably time to come clean - well, after I finish digging in the dirt a little more. This is the result of five hours of outdoor work on Thursday.
Dog run area on side yard has new stepping stones. Door on left houses the hot water heater. Window on the front left of the photo goes to the front bedroom. Behind the photographer is a gate to the front yard area. This is the area to store garbage cans.
We have three maple trees in our yard. One has green leaves that turn bright yellow in autumn. The one shown in this photo has dark red leaves that turn this lighter red/orange colour in autumn.
The other, we believe to be a cross between the first two. We discovered it many years ago as a tiny sapling growing against the fence between our driveway and our sideyard, midway between the first two trees. We transplanted it into the backyard and its leaves are a red-tinged green turning an orange-tinged yellow in autumn.
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Guests for Thanksgiving Picnic Dinner
I obviously let the word out that there was feed in my barnyard from which I feed my flock of ducks, chickens from. The turkeys somehow found out about it through their channels. So these freeloaders come by now and again to supplement their diet. They fly over the electric fence. I’m still trying to figure out how they learned that. This is our side yard about 50 feet from my west side door.
I wonder if they know they significance of having ten (10) genuine Native Americans over for dinner. Here in America for a LONG time before humans. After all they almost becoming the national bird. Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to his daughter where he stated that the turkey was “more respectable” than the eagle, which he thought was “of bad moral character.” He argued vociferously for it. The turkey would have been on coinage/buildings/seals from the beginning. That instead every artistic portrayal of a regal eagle has been done since. The Eagle won, instead of the majestic soaring turkey (oh wait), well at least they are brave. Boy that snood is quite a protuberance as well lolol. . The males are plain annoying at times. I see dinosaurs in them.
Surviving the major extinction of the Megafauna at the end of the Pleistocene, the turkeys had a humble beginning in the Early Miocene. Their ancestors went back to avian dinosaurian history though. The Miocene was a time of high CO2, high biological productivity, and rapid growth of new species development from 22-9 mya.
Location: Bliss DInosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands
Title: Guests for Thanksgiving Picnic Dinner
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This year's display of lights on the blue spruce outside our home isn't as full as it usually is. We had a lot of lights, but many of them pulled from the attic didn't work this season, so they got recycled. We used what we had this year, including some bought from an after-Christmas sale last year.
These double-color lights were from a small set that usually stay in the house, but they went outside this year.
Hopefully in a few days, I can find some bargain lights for next year.
Our pal Eric was kind enough to set up some screens and print in our sideyard. Here he demonstrates the magic of aluminum foil & a travel iron.
This is the most common species of grassy weed in the disturbed soil area of my side-yard and as a pioneer species it has taken over a big portion of the sideyard. Am going to spend the next four days pulling them out of the ground. While they were green and vibrant it was okay, yet now that they have dried and matured turning brown... the foxtails are a fire hazard.
in the sideyard: dahlia (tuber from last year), pear tree (flowered a lot last month so I'm hoping for lots of pears), patio rose, nectarine tree (newly bought/planted, still no leaves on it), peony tree, midget pear tree, 3 honeyberry bushes (with some fruits already forming on them), patio rose, mexican mock orange bush, patio rose
whenever there is space, I underplanted all fruit trees and bushes with strawberry plants
Uhh, so I'm aware that this is essentially the same as the one next to it, but I like it... sooo.... deal with it?
Another mystery plant showed up this year thanks to a bird or critter.
Canon EOS 5DS with a Sigma 105mm EX DG f2.8 lens that no longer will autofocus.
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the purple coneflower and black eyed susans both came back strong, as did the liatris that didn't get into the ground until September.
maybe squeezing six tomato plants - three Rutgers tomatoes and Super 100 cherry tomatoes - into that space wasn't a great idea, but I never thought the plants would get this tall. seriously, they're well over 6' and the one in the middle is almost 7'.