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Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, Feb. 24Hi Katy Updated Below! A bracing experience! We learn a lot and get a sense what it might feel like just from the photos and description. Thanks. Gardens of The Horde An Unexpected Garden Guest While on a quick down and back trip to our place in Sussex County, I happened to catch this Great Blue Heron standing at the edge of one of our border gardens along the front of our house. The dried growth beside and behind it is from marsh grasses that are pervasively invasive on properties located beside the salt marsh. This visitor, who I encountered as I was pulling out to drive back north, was a cool customer and just watched me and the car back out and pull away. Krebs v Carnot A great surprise! Wow! UPDATE Forgot this bit of joy from Diogenes: Seems like they are late this year. Or maybe I'm ready for the crummy weather to end sooner.
Garlic and onions are grown near us. I have never seen this done:
Navel oranges are still sweet and juicy locally, but not this juicy Sometimes those kaolin-type protectants are used on stone fruit trees here in the Valley, but not so thickly:
We decided to go into a local almond orchard to see how the bees were doing. The Mister has experience with bees, and he recommended not getting out of the truck. The bees were very active. Bloom was just beyond peak. From a canal bank: This is a big orchard. Used to be planted in field crops and we sometimes brought the dogs to run there between seasons: It's next to a young planting of pistachio trees, also a former site of field crops:
There were rumors at one time of a platypus in a stream near us. Somewhat plausible, since there were jets flying between our valley and Australia/NZ.
Puttering My mother once won a prize for darning socks. A LONG time ago. This might be more practical. Watch an expert at work. Have you ever tried anything like this?
Art Flowers In Extremis Hi, KT - This is an older image, but still nice. The back porch had this terracotta planter full of artificial flowers when the snow came in 2021. Got cold that year, too. Looking out on the scene after waking up and having the Morning Coffee, this was the scene that greeted me - so I got out the Nikon. Artificial or not, it's still a nice composition and the snow was still great Hope everyone has a nice weekend.
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