can’t blog much… too hot… 100 degrees… global warming and/or mid-summer…
The poor chickens look like fish on dry land with their mouths hanging open panting.
Everything’s hanging like wet rags.
The sweat’s running down my forehead as fast as I can wipe it off.
Hot is what I’m saying.
Wilty Broccoli
Field of Potatoes with Blues in the Front
Walla Walla [...]

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Hah! Made ya look!
Yesterday, I noticed that there were a few branches on my Rainier cherry with pretty nasty infestations of black aphids. I was standing there contemplating what to do about it when I noticed these ladybugs gettin’ it on. It wasn’t too much later that I saw a syrphid [...]

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OK, I was a little terse with the pictures. Allow me to elaborate.
There are a lot of kinds of bees. Many of those bee kinds are living in my yard right now. I’ve got blue and red masons (though, they seem to be about done), green metallic bees, those tiny guys (about [...]

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