Photos: House Yard

These pictures are from Sunday, but it's after midnight, so the post says Monday.

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Photos: South Lot

These photos of the south lot are from Sunday, but posted after midnight so it says Monday.

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Birdfeeding

Today is partly cloudy and warm.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches plus a mourning dove.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 6/2/25 -- I finished trimming along the south end of the forest garden.  I still need to do the outside edge along the patio, before working on the interior.

EDIT 6/2/25 -- I trimmed along the patio side of the forest garden. 

EDIT 6/2/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 6/2/25 -- I started trimming brush in the forest garden.

EDIT 6/2/25 -- I trimmed more brush in the forest garden.

I've seen a fox squirrel.

EDIT 6/2/25 -- I watered the new picnic table garden and the septic garden.

EDIT 6/2/25 -- I watered the patio plants and the old picnic table garden.

EDIT 6/2/25 -- I watered the telephone pole garden and the savanna seedlings.

EDIT 6/2/25 -- I watered the prairie garden patch.

As it is now dark, I am done for the night.

Monday Update 6-2-25

These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Photos: South Lot
Photos: House Yard
Climate Change
Birdfeeding
National Pollinator Month
History
Activism
Climate Change
New Year's Resolutions Check In
Birdfeeding
Queernorm
Philosophical Questions: Country
Bingo
Follow Friday 5-30-25: Active Communities on Dreamwidth Spring 2025 A-I
Birdfeeding
Mines
Domestic Labor and Community Building Rec List
Birdfeeding
Today's Adventures
Birdfeeding
Cuddle Party

"Not a Destination, But a Process" has 136 comments. "The Democratic Armada of the Caribbean" has 87 comments.


There will be a Poetry Fishbowl on Tuesday, June 3 with a theme of "Gentleness Is Strength." I hope to see you there!


"In the Heart of the Hidden Garden" belongs to the Antimatter and Stalwart Stan thread of the Polychrome Heroics series. It needs $86 to be fully funded. Lawrence shows Stan around the campus at the University of Nebraska-Omaha.


The weather was cool recently and is now warmer. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, several mourning doves, several robins, a male and a female cardinal, two brown thrashers, a starling, a catbird, a blackbird, a grackle, an adult male fox squirrel, a young fox squirrel, and a skunk. Bats are flying overhead, and I saw the first fireflies! :D Asiatic lilies, astilbe, and snowball bush have flower buds. Irises, alliums, and Washington hawthorn are done blooming. Peonies are winding down. Currently blooming: dandelions, honeysuckle, pansies, violas, marigolds, petunias, red salvia, wild strawberries, verbena, lantana, sweet alyssum, zinnias, snapdragons, blue lobelia, perennial pinks, impatiens, oxalis, moss rose, yarrow, red coreopsis, anise hyssop, firecracker plant, tomatoes, tomatillos, privet, mock orange, dogwood. Raspberries, blackberries, and tomatoes have green fruit. Cherries and mulberries have pink fruit. Wild strawberries are ripe.

Hummingbirds

Backyard feeders changed the shape of hummingbird beaks, scientists say

According to a recent study in Global Change Biology, a journal focused on environmental change, the use and prevalence of hummingbird feeders — like those red and clear plastic ones filled with homemade sugar water — changed the size and shape of the birds' beaks. The range of the hummingbird also spread from the southern part of California all the way up the West coast into Canada.

"Very simplified, the bills get longer and they become more slender, and that helps to have a larger tongue inside that can get more nectar from the feeder at a time," says Alejandro Rico-Guevara, a professor of biology at the University of Washington and senior author on the study.

Pride Fest Bingo Card 6-2-25

Here is my card for the Pride Fest Bingo over in allbingo. The fest runs from June 1-30. (See all my 2025 bingo cards.)

If you'd like to sponsor a particular square, especially if you have an idea for what character, series, or situation it would fit -- talk to me and we'll work something out. I've had a few requests for this and the results have been awesome so far. This is a good opportunity for those of you with favorites that don't always mesh well with the themes of my monthly projects. I may still post some of the fills for free, because I'm using this to attract new readers; but if it brings in money, that means I can do more of it. That's part of why I'm crossing some of the bingo prompts with other projects, such as the Poetry Fishbowl.

Underlined prompts have been filled.


PRIDE FEST BINGO CARD

Friendship	Questioning	Growth	Support	Inclusion
Butch / Femme	Genderqueer	Curious	Aroace	Two-Spirit
Activism	Rainbow	WILD CARD	Found family	Queerplatonic
Identity	Bisexual / biromantic	Polyamorous	"I'd rather eat cake"	Hope
Unlabeled	Community	Comfort	Belonging	Validation

Population

This post is actually a mishmash of different quotes around the core theme.

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