We cut two trees down in the yard leaving us with none since they dropped one tree on my little baby Russian Olive that I have nurtured and adored for 4 years, splitting it in half. (Yes I know they hate them out west, but I don't care. They hate coyotes and wolves out west, too, but I don't.)
This is what is left of my precious baby. Since it rained it is especially droopy. We have it taped, and twice we propped it up with a stake and a strap, but someone, some mysterious force, insists on tearing out the stake and dragging the strap around the yard like a dead snake. I won't mention any names.
heh heh heh
But parts of the yard are kind of pretty. In a common kind of way.
Not all parts. While I was watching the squirrel I got buzzed by a female Ruby-Throated Hummingbird. She was out here yesterday too, and it has been years since I have seen any. It makes me wonder if she has a nest close by.
These, of course, are the opposite corners of the yard where the trees (Ash and infected with Emerald Ash Borers) once stood. I want to decorate: John wants grass. I sense a long winter ahead....
John piled these along the fence. The dogs sit in back of them and wait for Ori, the Border Collie in back, to come out and start running the fence with them, screaming hysterically. At least we are at the point now where I do not have to catch them individually: I get them past the bricks by herding them (yeah, I learn by watching, too) and then telling them "get in the house". Amazingly, they almost always do.
Yes for those of you who are easily terrified, it is a spider web. With rain. Near a Monarda.
And on the Clematis.
Oooo----camera!!
