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Wild Plants, Whales, and Oz in the Garden,

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 Due to major amount of  rain, my yard was still  wet on Friday. So, come Friday afternoon, I was still chilling and  waiting till later in the  day to cut.  An advantage to not cutting grass is it allows other  things to grow also. Friday morning, I grabbed my shovel, filled a large pot with soil and dug up some things that apparently once grew either in the soil of  my forest or in the hay that was put over my grass seed. Dug up and replanted in a pot of soil in hopes to get them  through the summer and winter,  of the coming yr. so they can  multiply and I can put them in  a garden. Here is what I found in the  yard.  I also have a lot of  oxeye daisy's so I dug a lot of this up and replanted in the yard. Although I have come up  with a way to fix my water pouring off the back of the carport and keeping the  yard really wet, I have not  gotten to doing it yet. To help prevent more soil washing, ...
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Morning on Daybed, Just Me, DJ and his Concern, Clouds, Pics and Beetles

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  One of those daybed mornings. Lily woke me before five and I got up to make sure  she had food in the bowl and  fresh water. How did she wake  me? By doing the low ugly  loud meow that says, I am pissed Misty is curled up next to you. GET UP! I shut the door, went  back to bed. Around 7:30 outside the door, there is that sweet,  "mom, get up" meow. I do, I open the back door and  I go back to bed, just for a few mins please. But no, Lily wants me up. So, now I have had 1/2 cup of  coffee, I am blogging and I am listening to the birds. Oh YES, Lily is curled up, asleep! Anyway, I am up. No rain today, haha,  it was drizzling when I got  up and cont for about 15 mins.  Can't do any damage at this point, everything is so wet from days  of rain, sun, rain, rain, rain, sun, rain.... you get what I am saying? I saw this thing, not a meme, not a quote, what do you call  stuff like this? Anyway, I saw this on FB this mornin...
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Checking the Yard, Blooms, and the Toad

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 At 3:30 am, POURING. At 6:30 am,  still pouring. 8 am,  pouring. 8:30 am, FINALLY  stopped raining. We finally had several hours Wed. morning of no rain, but  I had two doc appts.  so, I missed out on that mowing  time. Later that evening, it came again, full force. All night. Finally, I look out to see no rain, and  sunshine. Hoping that by Friday morning it will be  dry enough to cut. During the sun on Wed. morning, right before heading out  for my doc appts. I stopped to not smell the roses,  but to photograph the  blooms! When Deana gave me plants, she gave me some  obedient flowers.  I think this is one of those.   In bloom. This is a wild sunflower that came up in part of the  yard that has been re-seeded. Well, I really have no clue what seeds I threw here,  gotta wait and see what  blooms out. Marigold about to bloom. Morning Glory  finally started to grow more than an inch off the gr...
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1773 Ship, 1896 Home, Wooden Woman, and House Finch

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When I was in school, math  was not my subject, disliked English also,  but I loved history.  So, things like this topic below really grabs my attention.  In July 2010, during the cleanup and  reconstruction efforts following the 2001  World Trade Center collapse, workers discovered a  32-foot section of a shipwreck buried 7  feet below the site’s foundation. Identified  as an 18th-century sloop, it originated from  Philadelphia around 1773, likely used for trade. Dendrochronology and wood analysis  confirmed the ship’s white oak timbers  were felled in 1773, linking it to pre-Revolutionary  America. Preserved by the site’s muddy, oxygen-poor  environment, the vessel offered insights into colonial  shipbuilding and Manhattan’s historical waterfront,  now displayed at the New York State Museum. Folks, that is 237 years that the  ship was buried, a building was constructed on top of it, and how  many...
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