The smell of spring wafts in the wind. 
Here are a few of the aromatic blossoms in our gardens. 
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Archive for the ‘flora friendly’ Category
Petal Power: Sweet Scent 11 comments
Flowers On A Sunny Day 12 comments
After all the much-needed rain, we have a sunny day! Brightly colored flowers are finally in bloom in our gardens.
Barely visible is a tiny spider hiding from my camera.
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Time To Bug Out Photograghy: February 20 comments
Details matter. Nature’s attention to the insect world never ceases to delight.
While chopping firewood, the strange-looking larvae start to drop from holes in the center of the hickory tree. The birds seem to relish in the special winter delicacy as if someone lifted the top off an aromatic pot of soup.
The hidden larva is from the Cerambycidae family. The Round Headed Borers larva is a new species for me to observe.
The orange spots add great color.
The various sizes do not matter to the birds. A tiny wren took flight and dropped the fatted larva food about five times before settling in to eat.
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Color Splashes: Art from Art 36 comments
The painted chair is curing rapidly with the warm weather. Surveying the area I soon start finding the accidental art created from my project.
This is one of my favorite chair project by-product! The sun came out with perfect timing to capture the shadows from the grass blades.
Layers of various paints make a beautiful fallen leaf brilliantly fun!
I really like this small art piece!
Art on earth makes for great photos!
I am still finding bits of art unexpected and have painted many leaves on this sunny January day. I am not sure what I will do with them other than enjoying the experience.
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Bright Green Cocoon: Crab Spider 8 comments
It seems cocoons are in season. 
I notice a bright green cocoon on the back of a dead plumeria leaf. 
In October I took the only picture I have of a crab spider. I wish the details of the spider herself were more visible.
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Japanese Persimmons: A Magical Fruit 43 comments
Yesterday I tasted my very first Japanese persimmon. 
This colorful fruit rules! I have never seen such large persimmons. You have to taste one of nature’s best desserts.
The tree bows to the ripened persimmons. 
The ants can have this persimmon for themselves.
Thanks to our vet for sharing his bounty of yummy fruit! Dr. John you rock! 
Dr. John and his staff have a neat office pet that allows me a photo or two.
Lucky little lizard!
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Our Charlie Brown Christmas Tree 28 comments
Since the candy canes melted all over our tree decorations back in 1997, we haven’t bothered with a Christmas tree. On a whim, we decided to put up our own Charlie Brown kind of tree last Thursday.
We cleaned out a corner of the living room and went to find the perfect tree. The perfect tree is the first one I saw. Easy! After finding a tall and wide vase and round stones to stabilize the tree, we begin to rummage around the house for the tree decor. We find cardboard and foil for the star and man in the moon and use three bits of foil to create round ornaments using paper clips to hang them with care. Large gaudy earrings make great light weight sparkle. I find sewing notions in red and gold to drape on the tree. Some saved silver ribbon gift packaging works great for tinsel. The tree skirt is an unfinished quilt piece. We also found three small ribbon and a few bits of fake holly leaves and berries to add to the tree.
Otis is proud of his first Christmas with us!
This is our ‘dog chair’; we don’t care how it looks.
I decided to make some paper candy canes for our little Charlie Brown tree.
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Outside Friday 50 comments
Macon is warm for this time of year. Yesterday I found plenty of great photo ops.
Cold will soon be here. While cutting back the elephant ear plants, I find a couple of tree frogs enjoying the last of the sunny weather.
Tree frogs are common in this area. I still get excited to discover them!
After cutting back the large leaves of the elephant ear plant, I smell an unpleasant odor. Not wanting to step in poo, I scan the ground for the offending odor.
Instead of poo, I find a variety of a stinkhorn mushroom. The mushrooms excrete a stinkhorn slime for the attraction of flies.
A large female praying mantis sits on a twig for a photo session.
After harassing the poor female praying mantis, I finish my pics for the day on a sweet note.
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Do Onions Make You Cry? 30 comments
Me just being me has all manner of experiments in various stages in my house and in our garden as well. Meet Mr. Onion Face!
So after 10 days of having my Mr. Onion Face on the counter, it was time to take farewell photos before the trip to the compost bin. Plus the gnats and smell is not very appealing.
The rotting tomatoes adds a little flair to the picture.
Time for the next phase for Mr. Onion Face. Let me introduce you to Seymour, our compost bin. Goodbye, dear friend.
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Carrots with Personality 39 comments
We love carrots!
In addition to the health benefits of carrots, they also dazzle me. The carrots above look to be dancing under water.
Purple carrots are a garden novelty and taste great. 
Lucca is a great little helper!
I found another neat carrot combo.
We have a few more carrots in the garden. I hope they bond before I harvest.
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