Posted on 01/23/2021 7:09:12 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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Diana-—31 here this am & a dusting of snow. (Rabbit tracking snow). Found a dead rabbit near a horse paddock. Looks like it just laid down & died. No blood...Not torn up by coyotes-—which are here—and I have NO IDEA what caused it to die. Looked healthy otherwise, but gone. Happened before snow started-—dry ground underneath it.
Been here just short of 16 years...have NOT had similar before. Usually more are hit in the road. Now a mark on this one....
This time of year, coyotes keep rabbit population way down, even tho they can get inside my hay stack & evade the coyotes. Had only seen one in past 5 weeks.
I could just cut and paste your post and be very accurate.
Greenhouse heater on 29 degrees outside last night 60 inside greenhouse.
Bkmk
Our daffodils are peaking up through the soil.
I just spent the day rejuvenating shrubs that were very overgrown. I keep telling myself ‘no pain, no gain’.
The yard looks like carnage. Not fun. But has to be done.
Orchid
Hi, gardeners! Sorry, probably old hat for a lot of you, but I don't have many pics on this desktop... About that passion fruit - someone said no two are alike and, in fact, no two pedals, stems, or anything else on ONE flower are alike. Is that true? Pretty amazing.
Stonehenge before it was rebuilt in 1901
I would sure like to see Stonehenge in person before I die; so interesting and amazing!
What a cute little birdie! Stay warm in right. Getting much colder here today and had to cover up the sprouted seeds and new leaves sent up from bulbs. Brrrrr!
Thanks for the ping. BRRRRRRRRRRRRR. Cold this week.
Hubby had to run a very long heavy duty extension cord to the basement of the shed-root cellar area-concrete that was poured a few weeks ago, must not get to freezing yet.
He has started moving some stuff to the shed. Still waiting on the crew to put the siding on. Hubby’s hernia means that a lot of things he would normally do, has to be done by a crew.
The upside is, it’ll get finished quicker.
The shed doesn’t look like a shed at all, it looks like a house with a walkout basement and one-car garage.😉
👍saved the link for study later. Thanks for posting.
Thank you Diana!
AMAZING photos. Thank you.
We lived for one year in S. Dakota. Our first snow was 21”. It stayed and had many more added during that winter. Snow was still on the ground and melting in June.
I went out to get the mail one day, and sunk chest deep in a snowdrift. The snow was drifted all the way up to a little higher than our windows-we were living in a trailer.
Hubby walked across the highway one day to go to the grocery store and get a couple of bags of groceries. A blizzard hit. He had a hard time getting back to the trailer park. He said if he had dropped a bag, he would not have stopped to pick it up.
One day, I woke up in the wee hrs. freezing—ice had formed and popped the door next to the bedroom open. Used an icepick to chizel out the ice so it would close.
Was so glad to get back to Missouri where stuff usually melts in a few days before the next round. I do miss the weekly dairy delivery-it was great to have.
Cool link. But every one should hurry and use it and capture their plans. Website is going to be upgraded Feb. 1 and that feature will be disabled - they do plan to restore it at some point.
A few years ago we suddenly have passion flowers growing in the wild. Hubby recognized it, and made sure not to rip it out or mow over it. We had some wire set up hoping to have a nice vine to grow up over it —it has a “mind” of it’s own. LOL.
At any rate, the fruit is sort of citrusy. I need to investigate how to preserve that. The plant/flowers itself is supposed to be a good tea to use if you have insomnia.
When in bloom, the flowers attract bumble bees like crazy.
We have a fake Stonehenge in Goldendale WA
I took some amazing photos of a model on the “altar” and near against the vertical stones at surise one day. Perfect timing with a ray if light coming thru the far side of rhe circle of stones casting across the beautiful woman’s body and throwing her shadow onto another vertical stone.
We arrived and the sun was just beginning to rise.....I had a 5 minute window for the shot of hwr standing where the sun was perfectly placed.
Me too! It’d be fascinating. To stand there and think about all the events that are almost unimgainable to us here and now in the 21st Century... It’d give me the chills, that’s for sure!
...all the events that might have taken place there are almost unimgainable...
Big failing of mine: I'll often edit something then not check that it still makes sense afterward, lol!
Still doesn’t make a lot of sense, lol... Oh, well!
Hi Diana - can I be added back to the Garden Thread list please?
To access Stonehenge you have to park across the road, and a little down from it. Then you go into the visitor center, with the inevitable gift shop, and you go through an underground tunnel. You can’t go close enough to touch the stones, you have to stay on a walking path around the stones.
We also found one of the small Stonehenge’s in the Cotswold countryside. That was very cool! They say that if you try to count the stones there, you will not come up with the same number twice. Something to do with the magnetic field disrupting your concentration. I tried it, and gave up! LOL
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