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Today I was doing some yard work, and as often happens I make plans to do A, B, and C, and then get distracted and do X or Y instead of B and C. I’ve been trying to eradicate the periwinkle, so I hauled what I’d pulled up over to a spot where it can sit on stone and slowly die. (At least I hope it dies, with things that are invasive you never know. I’ve still got an eye on a black bag of yellow flag iris corms that continue to sprout every year after being out of the pond for three years.) Continue reading “A Discovery”
Meet the black-tailed/orange-rumped bumble bee. She was very slow and methodical in harvesting a particular patch of crocuses, and let me take a lot of pictures. Here’s the first batch of them. Click individual images to see the gallery. Continue reading “Bombus melanopygus”
It must be, don’t you think? if the leaves are falling.
Most of the crane flies I see, giant or otherwise, are pretty drab. This one must be quite newly out of its pupa.
Yesterday I spent an hour and a half in a friend’s yard, taking pictures of tulips. I think it was worth it. More pictures will follow over the next days!