Yaye's Garden: Butterfly Bushes Really Work

Nature sure is detail-oriented.

You really need to open this one up to its full size. This is my current wallpaper.

Just sharing some of the pretty!

Life...Apparently

Mr. Yaye and I went a-cherry picking in our front yard this evening in an effort to thwart our current arch cherry nemesis...Mr. Cardinal. It's not that we are unwilling to share our bounty with the colorful bird. It's just that we can only reach about six or seven fruit-producing branches, while the feathered one has a decided monopoly on the whole top half of the tree (a dozen branches, at least!). YET, we keep catching Mr. Cardinal plucking and nibbling from the lower branches that are clearly within our domain. So...we pick.

Let me tell you, the whole time we were out there, Mr. Cardinal was literally hopping mad that we were encroaching on what he has clearly deemed to be his cherries. I'm holding the ladder, Mr. Y is reaching and plucking, and Mr. C is cheep-cheep-cheeping madly, whilst flying to and fro from neighbor's drive way to the telephone lines.

Ah, nature. You know the cardinals steal our cherries and the bluejays steal our blueberries. Color coincidence? I think not!

I thought I'd also post this blurry out-take pic from my cherry bowl session -- it's like, none more red.

Yaye's Bloomin' Wisteria!

On the subject of stuff growing at home...Our wisteria finally flowered! It took three years, but it was worth the wait. Here are a few shots (needless to say, I took tons!):

These were taken one very bright morning about two weeks ago just before I left for work.