So here's a gallery of vignettes, bits and pieces of nature in my small sanctuary...
Yellow leaves in the fall...
Leaves on the deck...
The new bird feeder is attracting visitors...cardinals, sparrows, finches, juncoes, titmice, chicadees, nuthatches, woodpeckers...
Busy squirrel burying nuts...
Love that late afternoon light in the fall...
We topped up the shed when we put up the roof beam with a young cedar from our old cabin...
Dayflower and visitor...
Summery path to the alley--GREEN, wasn't it!
Back fence at our house next door...
The view of the top of the shed, over the back fence...like a jungle, isn't it!
Echinacea in my old raised bed behind the shed.
Wild Sweet William...
Looking up the alley toward the street--it dead ends, so no one uses this part of the alley but us...
A baby oak tree near the NE corner
Jewelweed across the alley...
Dead Cicada...and ants, ick!
The male cardinal and his mate had a nest in the wild honeysuckle by the fence...fun watching them...
Soft maple samaras on the deck...
Japanese Umbrella mushrooms disappear before the day fully warms...tiny little things!
Old Man's Beard across the alley...a cloud of white!
Not sure what this moth was...
Joe Pye Weed, I think....
The shed at night...pretty...
Wild honeysuckle...they're taking over! Gorgeous, though...
Sketching that gorgeous cardinal...
Pokeweed...pretty but poisonous to humans...
Gooseberry by the fence...definitely NOT poisonous!
One of the visiting squirrels!
