By our northeast corner post:
Here it is again, two weeks later:
Author: edwinridout
Cherokee Princess
Cherokee Princess, a flowering dogwood cultivar.
Said to be the industry standard for white blooms. Ours are more cream than white. We have many wild dogwoods, but none are blooming yet. This one came from a nursery a few years ago, replacing the gorgeous weeping cherry felled on this spot by the snow. (But a week later they seemed white enough. Below I added a few more pictures taken Saturday 16 April, just as the rain began.)
Wikipedia reference: Cornus florida
Northern Magnolias
At home, about 8am Saturday, 9 April 2011, after a cold, drizzy night at the end of a week with both warm and cool days, some strong wind, and at least one brief spell of heavy rain. (Through the winter, we have to surround these trees with 5′ wire fencing to save their large, fuzzy buds from the deer.)
Below, a few shots of the same from Monday afternoon this week.
Here’s a reference to Gardening-Guy.com, on what looks like the same plant.
Bluebird box: no luck yet
March 27 through April 2, 2011 — 54 pictures in 54 seconds, with the Wildview camera pointed at the bluebird box. Although I saw a chickadee exit the box last weekend, I definitely saw a bluebird peering into the box yesterday, with a partner on a twig nearby. So why didn’t the camera see them?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TntOoHk8Qys
| Evidently the camera needs to be on a pole almost adjacent to the nesting box. A 150% enlargement from one of the chickadee shots: |  |
Home alone with the PPA
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PPA, you ask, personally? A particularly phine pale ale, provided me by Erin on a recent visit here from Philadelphia. Phortunately, it came in a package with 23 others. Thanks, Erin! (Yes, I am home alone, partaking straight from the bottle, minding the puppy, while S is away in Pennsylvania for a few days. Phew!) |
Cadbury
Our new invisible puppy on the last day of winter — before growing from 17 to 32 pounds in four weeks.
Our first daffodil
After four inches of rain in as many days, today we see our first daffodil blooms — tiny daffodils of the kind the cancer society used to sell us each spring. Only about 3″ tall — compare to the size of the acorn nearby.
Heather
Our heather, in bloom for about a week now — under an oak canopy as specified by Wikipedia.
Dead Ahead: Mr Charlie Told Me So
Gareth in recent performance by Dead Ahead at Wilbert’s in Cleveland, Ohio
(with guest Tom “TC” Constanten):
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwxjyLSTBf4
Still no luck with the owl box
Still no luck with the owl box, nor with the Wildview camera, really. I removed the second squirrel nest and installed fresh bedding of a few wood chips, leaves, etc. And since the camera had this time failed to get a single shot of the squirrel coming and going, I moved it to a tree five feet closer, even though it’s now going to be pointing close to the setting sun.
Here’s the Wildview camera:
