River oats, inland sea oats…whatever you want to call it, the seeds are in (really more like “on”) the ground.

Since I accomplished little yesterday, and nothing at all Friday after work, only two pictures…

This is the second of the lobelia that bloomed in Sarah-Flah’s garden. Photos just don’t capture the true, clear red, but I keep trying!

I found this poor Red-Spotted Purple out in the open on some dill yesterday. He was cold, so I got him warmed up, then put him in a butterfly bush where he wouldn’t so obviously be potential bird food.

Today, I did the laundry, but also collected some dead, weathered osage-orange to make a kind of border for the bed where my river oats will grow (hopefully…hungry winter mice aside) next spring. I had 300 seeds and was going to hold back 100, just in case, but decided to go big or stay home and planted them all. I hauled a few carts of dirt up from the creek “dump zone”, then mixed in some MG garden soil and sprinkled them on. The wild ginger will go next to it…whenever it arrives. It shows shipped last Thursday, but no tracking, so I have no idea. Anyway, there’s a spot for it, and the river oats will hopefully grow next spring.

I mulched the river oats, but obviously can’t do the ginger until it actually arrives.

I changed the MLB feeders, too; we still have four birds left. I’ll miss those little bastards when they go, but their return makes spring exciting, and I’ll have even more for them in 2016. Hopefully, we won’t have another cold, wet spring/soaking wet early summer like we did this year.