Spring is coming

Barbarians at the gate...

A year and a half trying to fence the deer out of the exclusion zone... The last several months, fence looked absolutely impervious, yet bambi continued leaving fresh tracks everywhere inside the wire... and eating stuff...

Addams family flower garden... Bambi apparently has a taste for columbine flower stalks...

Or maybe Thumper's responsible... Caught 2 rabbits this week...

Here's trouble... Emptied rabbit from trap & caught this huge raccoon next night... They're after the chickens... able to kill yardbirds through the wire...

And then... there's the good stuff... Like this zebra swallowtail...

And this gorgeous leafwing...

 

Pawpaw flower... Tree doesn't look like much yet, but saw a zebra swallowtail laying eggs... ran for camera, but she was done and gone... so no pics of that...

Climate mitigation... cooking meal with dropped limbs on kick-down converted propane grill.