Gardening, anyone?
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I'm hoping it doesn't blow east. DS lives in Hood River.
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I way behind in posts. Been working too hard and not on my garden sadly. One of my resident hummingbirds. She sits above our front feeder and dives at the other two who try to drink from it. No worries though we have two more feeders so plenty to go around.
Hope all here are safe. We have relatives in the path of Irma and they don't want to evacuate. SMH
Scottie
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Scottie, I love my hummingbirds - I was so worried with the smoke here - but it looks like they survived. Here is one outside my home office window. BTW, we did get a little rain last night and our air particulates are out of the "Hazardous" level into the "unhealthy" level.
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Beautiful hummers ladies! We have them here for about another month, they are usually gone by first of October.
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We're lucky that the Anna's hummingbirds over winter here.
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GMA. . .awesome photo. I'm currently trying to photography the male hummingbird who drinks from the feeder attached to our window. All my hummers are camera shy. So sorry about the fires. Praying for rain for the northwest. Our relatives are playing wait and see in Charleston and Georgia is in the path of the storm. SMH.
Scottie
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I never got my hummingbird feeders out this year, but I love the hummingbirds. They are so entertaining, especially when they are not shy.
Pretty pictures, Jazzy. The unidentified picture looks kind of like Indian Blanket, Gallardia?, with some petals missing? I think I would love New Mexico. Have to take a trip sometime.
We have also gotten the smoke in the Chicago area! Just one day. I was out walking and I thought who is burning wood. I couldn't identify any source in the neighborhood, then I thought they were doing a burn at the forest preserve. When I watched the weather they mentioned it was from the Canadian wildfires. It only lasted a day here because are winds are usually from the south and southwest in the summer, so the wind switched back to the other direction.
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Found a recipe for my tomatoes - you dry them until they are brittle then put them in a blender - make them into powder - 1 tbsp of powder equals an 8 oz can of tomato sauce. Just add water. - so tomatoes were dried last week. I got 2 pints of powder for tomato sauce.
Froze about a dozen quarts of apples and made hubby and his friend a 9 x 13 pan apple pie (no extra sugar). Still have another big bucket of apples to go.
I don't even want to think about the champagne grapes that I make into jelly - they still need to be harvested.
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Catching up while weathering the tropical storm west of WetLanta. Excellent photos ladies. On the humorous or not so humorous side:
Never trust a beaver. The least they could have done was finish the job before they took shelter. My 40 foot willow is now leaning precariously and at the mercy of #irma
On the lighter side. . .I have made friends with one of my 4-5 hummingbirds. Put the camera on the tripod next to the window and wait for him to come. He cooperated this morning. Guess he's feeding up as the storm comes in.
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We had beavers here felling trees in a natural area park. They decided they were just doing what beavers do and left them alone. Perhaps they'll return to finish the job at your house.
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Goodness, Scottie, that is some damage. Maybe you should plant some more rose bushes so they'll leave your trees alone.
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Still raining in North Alabama. Despite this, I covered up and headed to the garden yesterday afternoon. Hubby made a roast in the Romertopf and his new recipe called for herbs. The garden was fresh and clean from the rains.
I realize we are so fortunate to just have rain and wind.
Coach Vicky
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My friend made it through H. Irma with minor damage to their place - Still haven't heard from family back there. Hoping for good news. I got a picture yesterday of a hummer. I call it my glow bird. The sun was backlighting it so it didn't turn out as clear as I like but I thought the effect was fun. Fire and smoke are back after the refreshing rain this weekend. Back to staying indoors.
One of my favorites is below:
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Gamafoley thanks for the recipe humm
I wish I had tomato power lol
I am happy to report my lemon plant is full of little lemons now.
After fighting with squirrels all summer I gave up. Gave away most my plants and kept only the ones that survive indoor. Here you must enlarge the photo to see the little lemons. Lol
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Teka- your porch is lovely. Frost stay away!
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GMA hoping your family is okay. Tika lovely deck. I'm still stalking my hummers, we think we have five of them and maybe more living in the neighbors trees. I've never seen more than two in any given season here.
Scottie
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Teka, Would you like to come and do my deck? DH keeps planting vegetables in the containers. Practical but certainly not attractive.
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Such pretty little hummer pictures. I love them.
Teka such a pretty pot. What is the yellow flower vine? And do the red flowers belong to the nasturtium? What a great combo. Did you plant them from seed or plants?
Enerva, I love the lemon trees that are indoors. I want to see if you are able to get any lemons inside. If you do, I want to get one for my bay window!
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So pretty, Teka. I will keep that in mind for next year!
I was lamenting that my limelight hydrangeas never turn lime or pink and yet when Ilooked at some in shadier spots, what do I see.
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Twohobbies- how pretty! I love flowers that get a mauve-ish shade, such a rare color in nature.
I have two seedums coloring up, one a grape color and the other that mauve-ish color. Pictures coming soon! The heat this year has them slow to come in to color here in Sept.
Hoping everyone who has been impacted by the storms and fires is hanging in there. More hurricanes brewing too
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Glad to see some positive gardening signs from late summer. I've given up on most things except for an Hungarian Hot Pepper plant that has produced more peppers than I or my friends can consume. I'll look for it again next year as it is a pretty green plant with abundant peppers that add just the right spice level to my salmon and or tuna salad.
This photo is from online although mine is similar but with lots of bug ridden holes in the leaves.
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Still harvesting tomatoes and turning them into crushed tomatoes. Garden is almost ready for hibernation. Got a few tomatoes still ripening
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I was up in Santa Fe a couple weekends ago again and so many beautiful gardens and flowers in bloom. Here are a few goodies
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Teka- what is a cluster puffball? never heard of this?
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Puffballs were eaten like fried portabella steaks when I was a a child, mom made them. But they would turn all dry and puffy like sawdust/dandelion feathers when older. I guess why they are called a puff ball. Don't know the other names.
I am still grounded inside or out of sun and even shade. Just had a prednisone attack - complete drug allergy. Getting through that then back on Xeloda. Doing fairly well otherwise. Feel like I could take a long walk though cannot, feel like I could dig a hole or dance a jig, but no., Not yet.
Loving all the photos.
Hubby said he saw a wolly worm yesterday and it was almost white instead of dark brown or black. The tale is when darker, the winter is harder. Very interesting to see what this winter will be like here.
Hummingbords are still here, whip-poor-wills have a baby to get off the ground then they will leave, but still have a lot of bugs for them so they are staying. Robins by the flock are migrating through the woods to the south a little at a time. The ones here now are likely from Canada, my guess is they stop in southern Tennessee unless threatened by snow/ice and maybe they move further south if they know it is coming. Poor birds, with the weather so unpredictable any more.
We have 86 degree weather here for days now. Don't know when it will end, almost wish I had gone out there and planted even more green beans, they would have done well. The cherry tomatoes were devoured overnight by an outcropping of tomato worms, the ones Hubby did not pull have sprouted more leaves and blooms and are making more yellow cherry tomatoes. Cosmos still blooming. Peppers turning red, will serve with brats and grilled onion and grilled peppers in a tortilla later this week, with slaw.
This is what our view over the meadow will look like in two weeks. Photo from a few years ago. I cannot wait!
Will check in and read more later. My heart is with all who are having such terrible challenges from weather and earthquakes. And our health.
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Lovely photos all, especially the fall colors. We go from green to bare trees in Georgia. Every few years I have a couple of days of red leaves on my maples.
Our vermint saga continues. The dang beavers still haven't finished the job, but at least they managed to take down the willow to so that it fell across the lake front where it caused no damage. Gonna wait a week or so to see if they chop it up and haul it back to their lair. If not, we'll have to rent a chain saw. Still better then paying a tree service to take it down.
Scottie
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I love all your photos .!
Teka ..can I come and sit on your porch ?
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Harvested another bunch tonight. I use my crushed tomatoes in soups, chili and Hot Dish.
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Freeze
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Got some green beans a couple of days ago. Finally got to snapping and freezing them.
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