Choice Morsels

I did pick my first two fat Roma tomatoes this week. They were just starting to turn color and I brought them inside to finish ripening, so the bird's don't get them. New "Easy Dancer"Asiatic Lily I'd completely forgotten I'd planted these until I saw this one open this week. They were a bulb bin purchase from a local garden shop. It's got the sun shining on it, so the camera can't precisely "see" it's actual colors, but this lily is a deep burgundy with bright yellow tips. Quite striking.   Bird Seed Sunflowers : My collection of "bird seed" sunflowers that popped up this year. I did plant some on purpose, but others are volunteers. When I look out the back door, I can see them standing tall among the Zinnia's.

Today's highlight photo is this pretty Sunflower with 3 little striped Sweat Bees! They were coated in pollen loving this sunflower! Since I have a bird feeder and the seed mix includes various sunflower seeds, I just pushed a selection of them into my flower bed and get and interesting mix of sunflowers. This one was one of those seeds. In the background, you can see the yellow melon blossoms on vines that have crawled up into the tomato cage. My New Home Made Bird House I had a cute little bird house similar to this one pictured--it was just made of painted wood. It lasted 3 years, was even used a couple times, but this year I had to discard it because it was simply rotting away. My humid and rainy climate was too much for it.  I did salvage the wood ring on the front to reuse, though. I replaced that bird house with one of my own using a small plastic Folgers coffee canister topped with an old license plate for a roof with that wood ring from the ...

September is Dragonfly season in North Florida! They're flying about everywhere! Good news is they're predators to other flying insects, like mosquitoes so you want them around! A Dragonfly Close-Up This fellow happen to perch on an onion blade in a container garden on the patio just outside my sliding glass door, a few feet away. I caught this shot right through the glass, which is amazing since the glass wasn't crystal clean or anything. This is a young male Slaty Skimmer.   Here's a couple photos from the wedding we attended in New Jersey in August: It was an outdoor wedding and Sunflowers were the bride's flower of choice. She purchased them from local farms and arranged simple stems of one or two in glass vases everywhere. She also picked seasonal road side wild flowers to put in other vases. Very rustic. Probably the most creative, colorful wedding flowers I've ever seen used! The Bride and Groom: Chris & Kayla Chris is a...