Harvest sweet potatoes before the vines have frostbite. Frost on the vines can damage your crop, so if the vines get killed back by frost, cut the vines. Harvest the potatoes as soon as possible after … [Read more...]
Eastern Box Turtle
This is an adult male eastern box turtle. They can live a long time in the wild, around 80 years. This one lives in my garden in the spearmint bed. It lived there last year too. He is very careful … [Read more...]
Buckets Of Syrup
Revisiting the Milkweed I don't know why milkweed is not called buckets of syrup. The little flowers look like buckets. Ants climb all over the blooms, even at night! I'm not sure they ever stop! … [Read more...]
Butterfly Face
This is another view of an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail. … [Read more...]
Rabbit and Bunny
My vegetable garden is usually a home to a bunny or two. My large old mint and daylily bed is a sheltered place for a rabbit hutch (or is it a den) and it is next to food. They do not bother the … [Read more...]
Green Dragonfly
I have not investigated what kind of dragonfly that this is. Although this is not a good picture, I was glad to get a picture of it because I haven't seen it since. In the photograph, it is on mint … [Read more...]
Bumblebee in Zucchini Blossom
I was checking for bad bugs when I saw this bumblebee sleeping in a zucchini blossom. There was a bad bug on the blossom too and it moved further into the blossom when it saw me. The bad bug woke up … [Read more...]
Hairstreak on Basil
This photograph is reduced quite a bit to fit on this page. These little hairstreaks will just stand there and let you get this close to take a photograph. Cute how they have fringe on their … [Read more...]
Zucchini
My garden loves me I think. My 4 zucchini plants have been plagued with squash vine borers for several weeks now. The stems are pitted but they root and grow. I'm glad too, my family has discovered … [Read more...]
Deer
The sun was getting low when I saw these two deer from my backyard. They were in the neighbor's yard. One saw me and one didn't (yet, in the photograph). I've also seen two wild turkey's in my yard … [Read more...]
Tall Zinnias
In my vegetable garden, the pink zinnias and some of the red ones came up "wild" from seed that goldfinches dropped last year. The parent plants are giant zinnias and mine usually get taller than 5 … [Read more...]
Black Swallowtail
You have to look carefully to see the differences between this black swallowtail and the black eastern tiger swallowtail. One of the differences is the big dot on the upper part of the wing. The black … [Read more...]
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail II
This is the same butterfly that was pictured yesterday. With the sunlight shining through the wings, you can see the distinctive tiger stripes. … [Read more...]
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail – Black
Eastern tiger swallowtails can be black or yellow. Both have dark tiger stripes and tomorrow's picture will be this same butterfly showing the dark tiger stripes. I believe this one is a female. … [Read more...]
Great Spangled Fritillary
This fritially is big and makes a very orange statement on the zinnias that it visits. Notice that it stands on 4 legs. When I look at photographs of this particular fritially, all that I have seen … [Read more...]
