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Today's Garden Pics: I saw this box turtle enjoying wading around this dish of water I have out for the birds a few days ago, at least until she saw me with the camera, then she froze. That eye is looking right at me! I took the picture and she crawled out of the desk shortly after. I recently caught this tree frog peeking out of my patio container reservoir hole. It has a couple inch space for water and the tree frogs like being in there and stick their heads out to catch passing insects. Raised Garden Bed Progress: First one is filled and yesterday I did some planting: a purchased tomato plant & bell pepper and some seeds: purple bush beans, zucchini, beets, butternut squash. It's important to space certain things out, so you don't get a ton of stuff all at once, so I'm just planting beans in quarter rows, a week apart.  Beets will need thinning out once they spout, so I left a blank row to move those two. I like them for greens. Th...

Well, my electric lawn-mower gave up the ghost today. That's a good thing, so now I can look into ordering a new cordless electric mower that uses a rechargeable battery instead of a power cord. It's be so much easier. Today's Garden Pics feature cute little tree frogs in funny places: Here's a tree frog in my planter peeking out: I have these cool planters out on my patio that have built-in spaces on the bottom to hold water and this is the hole is available to add water directly, though it also trickles down through the dirt. There's a little water in there and tree frogs like to stay moist. I looked out the back sliding glass door, saw him and grabbed this picture! This was the only day I saw him. Tree frog in my Queen of Tears Bromeliad I discovered this little guy has take up residence in my Queen of Tears plant that's in a pot on a stand in my rain garden out back. The center of the plant and surrounding leaves hold a bit of water a...