Month: April 2011
Easter
Easter Saturday
A couple of dozen shots taken Easter Saturday morning while wandering around the back with the dogs. Once you’ve clicked the first one, you can click the center margins or use left or right arrows to advance . . .
Good Friday — and springtime
Azaleas, wild dogwood, minding the hellebores, preparing the veg gardens . . .
. . . goldfinches, cardinals, woodpeckers
Camellia in the rain
Gaye Adegbalola: live at the Psalm Salon, 10 Apr 2011
A link to the Psalm Salon’s video of Gaye Adegbalola with Roddy Barnes:
blues women in history:
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Gaye Adegbalola with Roddy Barnes live at the Psalm Salon in Philadelphia on 10 April 2011. We know of Gaye Adegbalola from her performances we’ve attended in Fredericksburg, her hometown, with Safire, the Uppity Blues Women. That group’s retired now, but she’s still going strong as ever. |
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What tree is that?
By our northeast corner post:
Here it is again, two weeks later:
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: |  |