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A Walk About Through the Yard for Plants and Projects

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 How about a walk about through yard? My sedum is so confused. Our temps have been down and no humidity, which makes my sedum assume fall is coming. You see, this blooms at the beginning  of fall. Took my walk about Friday morning and stopped at the mailbox. I loved the view so much, I just had to have a pic. I think this is a Batchlors Button growing from seeds I tossed at  the mailbox. I walked across the road the other day to see if any seeds I tossed over there at the end of summer was doing anything.  Morning Glory was blooming. The Marigold did not take. Another shot of the mailbox.  This is a weed, and or Dandelion, only this is one I  have never seen till this yr. Google, I love Google, tells me that  it is a Texas Dandelion, AKA Carolina Desert-chicory or  false dandelion. Now I insert my thought here, Carolina Desert? Why that name, according to my brain, Carolina don't have deserts... Anyway, hard to tell in this pic, looks like ole reg...
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Pam in TN., Coincidence, Rockhounding, Flowers

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  A couple weeks ago I got a message on  a post from Pam in TN.  No silly, not me Pam but another Pam. Pam however is not a blogger apparently but she apparently reads blogs but does not comment... UNTIL NOW! Pam if you are reading this,  thank you for you comment and for  taking the time to say hi. Please, leave a comment anytime. Anyway, this is what Pam had to say. I’m a long time reader but never commented. I live in Donelson. Just wanted to tell you all my husband’s family is from down where you are living now. His mother’s family lived on Little Lot Road and his Dads family lived on Prim Springs Road. You had to drive across a creek to get to this Grandmothers house on Primm Springs Rd. Was down that way almost weekly back when they were all alive. My husbands parents lived in the “bonnas” for awhile until they passed away. Sadly my husband passed away last August. We were married 56 years. Wow....and the world just keeps  getting smaller and smaller ...
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Google, Pretty Toilet, Yard of Flowers, Old Wheels, Mower and Wagon, Kicked Back

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   The question of frog or toad, toad or frog has been solved. Liz suggested that I use google. I did and this is what came up. I thought for sure the one below was a frog, I was wrong, it is a toad.  A Fowler toad. The one in the next pic is also a toad. An American Toad. I have no clue why I did not  google before Liz suggested, cause I google everything else. Esp. my flowers and plants. But Liz, I did not turn  each frog over and photograph the lower area and google it to  see if it would tell me if it was a male or female! 😁 The TOAD in the first pic surprised me as I cut the yard on Saturday. I was cutting around my crepe myrtle and out it came, it had been vegging under the bush on  the side of the yard.  Then Sunday while weeding the darker dude jumped out from behind a flower pot. I nicked him cause he  had a little blood on his head. I  went back a few house later to check on him and he was still there, I could not tell if he w...
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Granddaddy, Elkins, Voliet, Meek, Legion, Up Coming Trip

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 My granddaddy. He has been gone many, many years now. But, I still remember  him just like it was yesterday. This is my mom's dad. I took this pic with my camera,  I told you all before, I always had a camera. It was taken in  grandma and granddaddy's living room on one of our visits to Georgia. My granddaddy was a man of  very few words but I will never forget me sleeping on the couch in  the den, next to the kitchen when we visited. Graddaddy would come in after work and while he warmed his meal that granny left in the stove for  him he would sing to me, "Hey,  hey, good looking, what cha got cooking"?   He also called me string bean. Now, I finished out growing at 5'2, like in the 6th grade and that is exactly where I stayed. For a 6th grade girl though, I was considered tall. Oh,  and I was skinny.  6th grade,  which at the time was considered Elementary school.  Can you find me? When I went into 7th grade I was ...
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