Big birds and the bath
It is so funny to see the local large birds using the bird bath. The small and medium sized birds, such as California towhees, House...
Harvest!
There is nothing like picking your food fresh from the garden. And this is the time of year when so much can be grown and harvested. On...
Ultra-green sweat bee on cosmos
This is the first time I observed an ultra-green sweat bee Agapostemon texanus here in our garden. In the image above it had just landed...
Fiery Skipper sleeping in the sunflower
A few evenings ago, I noticed this lovely little butterfly sleeping in one of the Delta Sunflowers. What great camouflage! I had never...
Bees in the native garden
It's so much fun to observe the bees visiting our native plant garden. In the photo above is a honey bee in one of the Cosmos Cupcake...
A hooded oriole visits
These photos of a hooded oriole were taken 10 days ago, from our kitchen porch and through a screen door to the patio. I was standing on...
Western Scrub Jays on the Crabapple tree
Western Scrub Jays are in our neighborhood and the garden all year round. Within the past month at least one fledgling has been around...
The native garden
Here are some images of our native (almost all native) garden now. I am very proud of how it looks and have my vision of how it will look...
An American Lady butterfly
An American Lady Lady Vanessa virginiensis butterfly visited the patio yesterday afternoon. It landed on a buddleia flower head and...
Carpenter bee on the butterfly bush
So far I've only occasionally noticed carpenter bees in the garden. This is the first carpenter bee I've observed on a Butterfly Bush...
