Side Yard

Gold-crowned sparrow

Sideshow performers at Yards Park

We usually grow vegetables in the summer, they are fresh and delicious.

these plants were not blooming when we first moved in but are now doing great

8/7 - SX-70 w/ 600 film.

I was bored. I did nothing other then take the pics off the camera and use the automated photo sticking in photoshop.

also challenging to photograph these tiny blossoms in a breeze...

I think it is following me! Yesterday morning I went out to cut off the dead flowers and lo and behold, there was a praying mantis hanging out on one I didn't cut. Glad I didn't make a grab for that flower, I would have ended up with the mantis on my leg again.

After the bath

Taken at the sideyard of our residence at #2 CBMU, Kalaklan Heights. Olongapo, Zambales, Phil. Taken June 15, l956 ( a year before HS Graduation.

A new plum tree! With different varieties grafted no (one for each colour tag half way up...the modern space saver ;-)

The side yard that come spring will be turned into a vegetable garden

...said the spider to the fly. And this web was filling up with tasty little morsels. I think it belongs to the spider in the next shot!

In our back/sideyard the summer yields interesting batches of wildflowers. We are lucky enough to get daisies. Here is just one happy flower, sunning itself below the summer's heat.

Sideyard over rock.

sideyard Omaha, 9 July 2009

this is what the side area looked like before the railing, the supports, or the work began. please excuse seamus' butt.

Peony, Columbine (yellow), view to little house