Predators Wanted

Well, warm weather has returned and a gazillion bugs right along with it.  Yes, we have seen hordes and hordes of those awful lubber nymphs this past month, as well as a few less conspicuous critters.

November Notes and Frosty Fears

Just for the record...

I'm doing something a little uncharacteristic of me on my blog today.  I'm posting a few wide views of the garden, mainly just for the record, as winter will be upon us in January, before we know it, and after these last two winters, I have no faith that we shall ever have a frostproof winter again.  Never mind that there is a town literally named Frostproof not so many miles down the road from us.  From what I understand, that name was chosen long ago to attract citrus growers to the area, but it does indeed suffer the same risk of cold as we do...not frostproof at all.  ; ) 

Still need a costume idea?

You could always go as an EXOskeleton!

Nightmares on Oak Street

My walk through the garden today fell a bit short of idyllic and peaceful.  In fact, I witnessed a few outright nightmares!  If you are squeamish or prone to fainting, beware as you enter this post today......

Glimpses of Glory in a Garden

"...the whole earth is full of his glory." 

~Isaiah 6:3

This weekend, I witnessed glimpses of glory in my garden.  It has thrown me into a fitful state of rhyme this afternoon, so please, please, pardon the poetry.  Some days, I just can't help myself.

Hunting Assassins and Hanging Thieves

There are a few visitors in my garden that are so vicious and cruel that they are quite welcome to stay as long as they like.  I'm talking predators.  Here are a few I have spotted recently:

Coolest Killer in the Garden

Look who posed for me on a viburnum leaf yesterday!

An Insect's View

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"Nature will bear the closest inspection.
She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf,
and take an insect view of its plain."

~ Henry David Thoreau

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