Brrr...

Ice on the goldfish pool...

Frost flowers... Verbesina above, dog fennel (Eupatorium capillifolium) below.

Frosty chickweed... it's so short that I can't hand-pull it... was watching a mockingbird feasting on it... and of course no camera... It flew away before I got back with it....

A blogging friend posted an article on backyard birds

So.... I eventually was able to get a few pictures this afternoon...

 Cardinal onna fence post

 Towhee in the chickweed

Some kinda wren, I reckon

Kinda difficult to get bird pics when you aren't shooting bird feeders...

While I was putting up barbed wire over the last coupla days, I was seeing truckloads of birds... everytime I walked past the garden... Of course.... no camera handy... really woulda needed to shoot action shots... can't get birds on the wing with single pics.... and they rarely pose on posts....

Here's a pic of the fence cutting through a nice thicket of blackberry bushes mixed up with wisteria... Guess which one I'd wish gone?

Hint... it's the invasive wisteria.... the blackberry actually has uses... While I rarely see berries... it's so dry... they wither up on the vine.... The briars make good habitat for the birds... They're also medicinal...

Here's a deer stand right on the property line... they're who the fence is for (poachers & thieves).

 I spoke to the sheriff's deputies... Hunting stand on the property line... nothing I can do...

 Seems like common sense they'd cut a path through the trees on the property that they're renting... put the stand out of eyesight.... at the very least...

Kitty eatin potato peels...