It’s working again. I didn’t have to do anything, except be patient. 

 

Better hurry and check out the bluebird camera.

Cause this baby is getting ready to fledge. 

 

 

Here's  another good picture of the bluebird in Yorktown.

 

I just tried to go to the Bluebird cam to see the baby bird, but the site isn't working right now. I'll keep trying, but I may have to reload, or rewrite the blog.

 

I'll get back to you!!

 

The Wildbirds Unlimited Store in Yorktown, VA has a camera set up inside a bluebird nestbox.  This picture is from last year, but the camera is set up again, so we can see the daily development of the bluebirds.  It is fascinating to watch live.  Just click on this link, and you can see them too.

 

 

HAPPY BIRDING!!!!

 

Just so you get the picture.  Poison ivy is rampant around here. 

 

Know how to identify it, and be aware.  It's everywhere!!!!!

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!!

 

It's that time of year!!!  Poison ivy is dormant in winter, but it is coming back!!!

 

I've written a few good articles about poison ivy.  To see them, scroll down through the archives, or go back to The Home page, and click the Searching the site tab.  Put in poison ivy, and the articles will come up.  

 

If you have experienced poison ivy, then you know about it already, but if you don't know about it, you SHOULD!!!!  It is all over our woods, near the mailboxes, growing up the trees.  

 

I'm trying to help you learn about it, so you don't have to learn the hard way!!!

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!!

 

Have you seen Jim and Roxanne's Clematis?   It's worth the walk over there!!!!

 

Each blossom is about 6 inches across, and the vines are loaded with them.  Breathtaking!!!!

 

What I know about Clematis is they like their feet in the shade, and their heads in the sun.  If you get them in the right spot they will live for years, and grace your garden with beauty every spring.

 

I'm just saying, Jim and Roxanne got it right.  Maybe the garden gnomes helped a little.

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!

 

 

 

Meet Sky.  She lives with Tom up on Bella Vista.  

 

She's only nine weeks old, but is already getting to know the neighborhood.  

 

If you see her and Tom out walking, please go slow.  She doesn't understand cars yet.  But she loves people, so stop and say hello.  They will be your friend forever.  

 

HAPPY SPRING!!!!

 

The first one in my whole life without my mom.  :(

 

If you love me, and want to show it:  do something kind for somebody today.  Not for me, for them!!!!

 

 

THANKS!!!!

 

We were walking on the Creekside trail last week and saw the Flame azaleas starting to bloom.  There must be thousands of them.  

 

Botanically, Rhododendron calendulaceum, these azaleas are deciduous, and bloom just as the new leaves are coming out.  It really makes the flowers POP!!!

 

The colors range from all shades of yellow to orange-yellow to scarlet.  You can see them on the trail, and in the woods on your travels.  Be sure to look for them;  they'll make you smile.

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!

 

Look who's blooming at our house!!!!  Wisteria!

 

Terry Thomas gave us some vines about 10 years ago, and we had the perfect place to plant them.  We planted them in a bed just in front of this trellis.  They took a few years to get established, and have been blooming ever since.  Now we have wisteria growing up the trees behind the trellis.  It is beautiful, and sweet smelling!!!

 

Wisteria is a fast grower, and will take over a flower bed or deck, so you have to be selective when planting it.  Give it space, and tall trees to climb, and supervision the first few years.  

 

You'll be glad when April comes and it blooms. 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!!