There’s a bee in the bonnet of this Swamp rosemallow.
Each flower of Hibiscus moscheutos blooms for only one day.
But each plant has multiple blooms, such as the one Gretchen pictured on a later day.
This plant is on the path to the garden.
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There’s a bee in the bonnet of this Swamp rosemallow.
Each flower of Hibiscus moscheutos blooms for only one day.
But each plant has multiple blooms, such as the one Gretchen pictured on a later day.
This plant is on the path to the garden.
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Apparently box turtles don’t like blackberries, even when Gretchen offers them. And Yellow Dog doesn’t notice turtles.
Gretchen offers blackberry to turtle
Gretchen finished weeding the tomatoes.
Well, those tomatoes. She already weeded the other ones.
And I found those cucumbers in the okra.
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What are these mystery berries that grow on the beaver dam and on islands in the pond?
We think they’re probably some species of Smilax. Continue reading
Yellow Dog and Brown Dog cooling off in a beaver pond.
Gretchen is represented by her camera there on the right.
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The porch wrens built their nest so dark inside I never even saw their eggs, but now the chicks are hatched, four or five of them.
Had to use my phone’s flash to see them.
Gretchen actually discovered them.
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The least menacing snake you will see today.
At the entrance to the Cypress Swamp. Brown Dog and Yellow Dog didn’t even notice.
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She transplanted that tree when it wasn’t knee-high.
Don’t tell her other trees she likes this one better. Continue reading