Though an old gardener, I am but a young blogger. The humor and added alliteration are free.
Friday, December 23, 2022
Storm of a Lifetime (Not)
Saturday, January 22, 2022
Creatures Gonna Creep
They sneak and crawl, go here and there.
They run, they jump, they eat, they fight,
They wander there most every night.
I think my garden mine alone,
They think the garden theirs to roam.
When nighttime falls, then out they come,
They're feeding off of my green thumb.
The garden mine in afternoons.
At night, the garden, creatures own,
They sit upon my garden throne.
The creatures linger out there still.
I surrender all to them each night,
They cede the garden, mine each light.
ProfessorRoush collected his game cameras last month and I was surprised, as always, by the life of my garden at night. I was less enthused at the skunk that made an appearance, but she seemed to be just wandering through. The coyotes are the most frequent visitors, patrolling the beds for rodents and generally just slinking around every night.
But, I recognize that life in the garden is fleeting, here one minute and gone the next minute, just like the sudden starlings in the photo above and the empty ground a few seconds later of the photo below. Notice the time stamp on these two pictures. Life is fleeting in the garden.
Sunday, November 15, 2020
My Menagerie
And the smaller wildlife is well represented. I'll spare you the pictures of the mouse and the chipmunk and the rabbits and the raccoon who come in for candid closeups once in a while.
cinereoargenteus). I saw him much better just this morning at dawn, crossing the yard heading for the hills to my west. He's been in other views on both cameras periodically all summer.
You wouldn't think that a stationery camera snapping pictures based on motion would be good for anything but occasional still shots, and yet this one captured, at one point, the drama present in most every garden. I'll show you the full capture of these pictures, because the time stamps are important. Here, at 12:13:24 pm on 10/02/2020, is my red squirrel, lower right corner, out playing in the grass as it has a hundred times before:
And then at 12:16:31, we see this hawk sweep in, a fraction of an inch from grabbing the squirrel that is diving for the goldenrod and safety at the edge of the bed. Are we witnessing the fury of nature?
I apologize about the picture-heavy post, but it is the best glimpse of life out there in the garden that I can give you. Please try not to spend the next week wondering, as I will, if the squirrel made it to winter and what else may be sneaking around out there in the garden.