Just miscellaneous creatures I found while wandering the yard during Honeysuckle Horror weekend. Roxy, recovered from her respiratory infection, and glad I’ve stopped picking her up to dump drugs on her face! Male Eastern Box Turtle that I ran across while photographing weigela. Teeny-tiny baby Pipevine Swallowtail cats on (of course) Virginia Snakeroot. These are […]

As I was killing honeysuckle (and almost killing me!), I took short breaks to walk around and see all the stuff still to be done, but I was rewarded by pretty things, so there’s that. Lavender almost ready to bloom. Bees will be happy about that! Penstemon ‘Husker Red’ is blooming. Bees are happy about […]

I took last Friday off because I’d finally decided to break down and kill the honeysuckle in the northwest corner. I knew it wasn’t going to be fun…and I was right! I started with basically a solid wall of Asian bush and Japanese honeysuckles. Just to test my battery chain saw, I’d cut a few […]