I believe the unfortunate butterfly is a painted lady butterfly, not a monarch. The yellow one is a yellow swallowtail, I believe.
My best friend and I used to go through the corn field and eat the ears raw! They were tasty! Try this: grill the ears of corn along with your...
I tell y'all, West Texas is a paradise!
We found a dead cicada killer & collected it for my daughter to look at. It is a very big bug & my daughter is wary of it - even dead! It is about...
I remember the tune so well! What about the one that went, "When you say Bud...."? And I don't drink their products - they give me an almost...
We found a spider with a nice web by my daughter's playhouse. We sprayed it with a fine mist of water to make it more visible. [img] [img]...
The red one w/ the thinner petals is a perennial hibiscus - dies down to the ground in Winter & comes back in Spring. The pink one is a tropical,...
All these zinnias are self-seeded volunteers. When I was a kid, we planted lots of these & let them cross-polinate to get funky new ones. Nothing...
I love those bright red sunflowers!
Hibiscus [img] [img] [img] Impatiens [img] [img] [img] [img] Yellow mandevilla [img] Rudbeckia [img] [img] [img]...
What kind of camera do you have?
I found these in the gardens today: A bee in a calendula bloom [img] Black & Blue Salvia [img] Bougainvilla [img] [img] [img]...
I cooked supper tonight: manicotti, garlic bread, steamed broccoli & carrots and Italian green beans! [img]
Plant something with nasty thorns, or that is poisonouos, so they get what they deserve!
The peaches came mostly from an orchard about 5 miles from our house. Some of them came off our trees. Lots of ours got eaten (in Texas we say...
My sister-in-law drove up from San Antonio as a surprise to visit us. Tonight, we had all the kinfolk in the county over for supper. We had steaks...
Buda, Check with local metal recycling places to see if anybody has recently sold copper wire to them in an amount that might equal what was...
Y'all can check out this opportunity: www.insectlore.com - that's where we got the critters.
Great shot, cap'n!
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