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Here is a baby killdeer, @Marie2020 . A plover ... about the same coloring for the adult and the same crazy legs :D. Here is an American robin. It's a thrush. A little bit of a contrast with the European robin, a finch. Steve, hoping it was okay with FlowerBug to insert these and he would...

Shhuuuurr That's the card a feline would add. :hide steve

Here I sit with my eyes on the internet — the temperature at the airport at 37⁰f (3⁰C) with the nearest Wunderground volunteers now hitting a degree f&c below that. I have been watching these numbers since 3AM. Hoses and sprinklers laid out in the garden with some plants covered. It is a day...

10 May 1954 :)

Or, evolve and use 23rd century English ...

Today is Endangered Species Day. A suggestion of a way to celebrate is to find a suitable sidewalk and use your colored chalk to create an image of a favorite endangered species. An example: I believe that Sage Grouse in North American are now considered "threatened" with a species in Colorado...

Our mint is only reaching harvest stage but I am not sure that I need more than what came off in '26. Mojito is in a very shady location and needs more days. I probably should have left the anise hyssop alone but it was too tempting to have some fresh sprigs for a big mug this week 🥲. Some...

Somewhere in @heirloomgal 's neighborhood.

Quite a contrast between Tuesday afternoon's sunny 81⁰f (27⁰C) and what we have had since. Wind gusts to 48mph ... random rain showers ... it is 44⁰f (7⁰C) at 3:30AM. Had the lawn and gardens watered by the time the highest winds showed up because the prediction of rain totals amounting to...

.At least, we don't have to put up with this in our own gardens.

It's 81⁰f (27⁰C). Warmest day of the year and 15⁰f above the normal high for the day. Thinning beets yields a vegetable right at the top of my favorites. You might want to try starting beets in potting soil and transplanting. if it's beet roots you especially enjoy, chard would be a miss. If...