The strawbs are starting to ripen, and this wildlife was seen grazing.
Some of them look almost like they know I’m taking the picture. Nature’s crazy.
I’ve been seeing goldfinches dining at the hummingbird feeder lately.
Don’t know why since there’s at least four water sources including the new froggy fountain.
Chuckles would totally eat them if they’d [...]

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Sometimes… OK, often… I get discouraged with my progress on our garden. You see something every day, and it’s hard to notice changes. Luckily, I stumbled upon some pictures that I took of the place when we moved in. “Then” was 2005.

2005
2008

Back Lawn

Shade Garden

Pond Area

One thing about my old pictures is that [...]

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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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I don’t know what happened. It was just summer a couple of days ago.Now, that same happy baby looks like this:

Anyway, some stuff to look at in the rain:
Some asparagus are starting to emerge. Maybe we can eat a few this year?
Lots of trillum coming up in the shade garden and [...]

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