Now I know what's been going on in my yard while I'm at work. For the last few days when I came home, they had this guilty look on their faces. Now I know why.
I'm way too innocent to understand what those two are up to. I'm also very good at telling fibs of course. Isn't it great to be in the right place, at the right time and with your camera at the ready?
right place, wrong time I was walking outside to take a few shots of the branching pattern of a basswood tree I grew from seed that is now 12 yrs. old, to do a post on the importance of pruning the first 5 yrs. to develop growth forms usually not associated with that species. Then something caught my eye. I guess I can say I grew it. I collected some seed from a tree I had planted years ago, and threw them in my shrub bed, and 1 seed sprouted. It stayed there for 2 yrs. and was only a foot tall when Rita rolled through and wiped out everything. It was then that I moved it to The Island Oasis. My dog Buck Buck is buried beneath it. Basswood (Tilia caroliniana) usually grows with a pyramidal form then rounds out. Anyone ever see a mature tree in full sun blooming? It's something you're not soon to forget. Notice those long, ribbon-like bracts pointing down, as this tree is about to bloom. I get a thrill when I see those itty-bitty baby lizards. I get depressed when my cat goes hunting... "Somehow, and I don't know how, I had become deeper,wider, more soulful, better at my craft; inspired by so many things like a world that is tilting who knows where." from a novel I'll never finish writing.
So it's all a huge lizard orgy? I saw earthworms ... doing it! WAS WEIRD! It was one early morning after the rain... lots of "doubles" on top of the soil...
