Relief

About 2 inches of rain in the garden... A nice break from the dry spell.

Some happy pollinators...

Even the scarab beetle is busy pollinating...

Happy daylilies...

Can't say the same for the rat...

dry

The weather report on tv (last week) was all about how dry it's been... Macon got some of those afternoon showers... And they stopped telling us how dry it was...

Out here in the sand, nothing... still dry.

We Need Rain!

You probably notice the yard getting a little bit on the crunchy side. It is has been pretty dry across the area. In fact, it is one of the driest May’s since record keeping began! Athens is actually tied for first place for the driest May 1-16 period. We have only recorded a trace of rainfall during this time period! The year to break the record is back in 1913. If Athens does not receive any rainfall today, we will officially hold the record for driest May 1st-17th. With that said, let’s hope we get rain.

Above clipping borrowed from http://www.athensgaweather.com/

 I recon that my garlic is dry enuff to dig some for the kitchen...

Those non-flowering stalks produce single cloves...

The heliotrope doesn't mind it being dry...

 The bees are content.

Dry oak leaf hydrangea...

Dry rudbeckia... blooms anyway.

Dry daylilies...

 

 Peach, plum, and pear... seem to have caught something in that wet spring we had...

Ok... enough belly-aching... how bout some critter pics...

 Wasp making a meal out of cabbage white caterpillar.

 Butterfly visits collard flower....

Fence post lizard keeps an eye on the gardener.

Some freshly caged maters... 

The veggies are getting a bit of watering....

Visitor

 

I don't see the gopher tortoises very often... so when this one came to my back door, it seemed providential... and I went running for the camera.

The turtle seems to be interested in eating the soil... Minerals?

Kitty's interested too...

Real interested...

Video of the cats seemingly ignoring turtle... 

while the turtle is oblivious to the cats in turn.

5-19-2015

Isn't it cute?

Buckeye caterpillar on toadflax.

delphinium carolinianum

Asclepias amplexicaulis

 This tree is costing my vegetables light... But somebody is using it...

Ramble on rose...

 

 Cnidoscolus stimulosus 

Colour in the May Garden

Bee visits poppy.

Amarylis

White campion (silene alba)

rose campion

On a previous post, I included a picture of a watermelon bed that had been completely ravaged by voles... before the seeds even came up!

Planting seeds in pots is a crummy way to garden...

Farkle berry bush

 Matelea

 Penstemons

Prunella

My water feature... Tadpoles in an ice chest...