Happy 2022!

 Gorgeous here still... When winter temps are in the 80's, what's not to like!

I couldn't help myself... dug out the camera and took these pictures.

Gulf fritillary and Eastern towhee

And cat waiting in food prep area for more preps...

Ok, you expect camellias and hellebore in January...

But... what about showy crotalaria, ruellia elegans, and tibouchina still hanging in there in select sheltered locations?

Some collards... Just in time for a Southern tradition...

canola in bloom

Flowers on the strawberries!

Bridal veil

White salvia coccinea

smilax berries...

mullien

burdock

 

rudbeckia triloba

April (Early Spring Again)

 

Hummingbirds started showing up Easter Sunday... Besides the coral honeysuckle, they are also visiting  salvia lyrata and canada columbine. Unfortunately, no camera at ready when seeing those visits.

Cherokee rose, Georgia state flower... I grew from a cutting...

Black Locust flowers (Robinia sp.) Brought suckering root stock plants out from a garden in town... original tree is long gone... people don't like colonizers... me? I need the fence posts... 

Nicotina

Snowball bush

Spring pea blossoms

Poppies have begun!

Magenta Spreen (Lamb's Quarter)

Flowers on the culinary sage.

Varmint control

Lots of iris!

More Early Spring!

 Turnips have started to bolt... so... no more turnip greens...

It's ok though... the kale is taking up the slack...

Kale leaves and lambsquarter tops

Spinach omelet made using kale and lambsquarter... I wish the picture did the omelet justice.

Lightning struck a tree near my house yesterday...

Did a number on my house wiring... blew up outlet boxes, not sure yet how many things were destroyed... I'm living with drop cords until I rewire the house...

New Biddies... Check the fuzz on toes! I crossed a cochin into the flock... Cute as they are, I feel tempted to trim the feathers on the daddy's feet so he can scratch effectively... what impresses me about the cochin is their size and temperament.

Mom & Pop...

Starting to see roses...

Carolina Jessemine

Cat picture.

picotee spiderwort

White violet... Usually my violets do poorly... rabbits eat the leaves...

Flowering peach

Early Spring

 Terribly disturbing weather over the rest of the country... I'm glad to be here!

The Hellebore are in full bloom!

Spring brings rain, and the hens are happy with the shelters I recently got from a neighbor.

Garden peas are up!

I caught this great rainbow outside the kitchen door one afternoon last month....

Turnips! I've been eating all winter... leaves in the stew, and raw tubers for lunch.

The animals are plotting a revolution....

Pepper plants and citrus trees taking a vacation outside...

Biddies!

Another hellebore bloom.

Happy election day!

I sure am ready for the political commercials to stop... And... an end to all that campain junk mail in the mail box!

Meanwhile... How about some nice garden pics?

Can't say that I've seen this terribly often... A butterfly three-some!

Those florida state butterflies (zebra longwings) are freaky!

Agalinas purpurea... didn't have as many agalinas this autumn as I'm used to seeing...

This cardinal is already eating the lambsquarter seed!

Clinopodium carolinianum (Georgia savory) 

Locally native to a small patch in the brush on this small tract... 

Wasn't difficult to transplant a few plants into the garden.

One on my monarch caterpillars that hung around for a few days after exiting the chrysalis.

Ghost peppers and Carolina reapers

Green striped cushaw... a couple that I was able to grow in spite of the cucumber caterpillars.

MMM steak! Spotted a nice Bambi roadkill on my way to work recently... put it on the truck and turned back around... shared some with the kitties.

Helianthus angustifolius...

Daisy mums...

Light frost this morning... most of my plants remain unfazed, but the chickens are enjoying the spiny cucumber vines...