Saved

This poor specimen was most unhappy in the earth. I don't know why. I brought him in.

1st week May 2011, garden

"Fiddlehead" fern, white tulip (plus a daffodil turning its back), and red berries.

Hide-and-seek kitties

Warning: you can barely see them. One (gray head) is at my front bumper. The other (orange) is just to the right of the two-trunk tree. They were staring at each other, then studiously ignoring each other.

Followup on crow activity

These are better pictures of the crow mischief described earlier this month. They really went to town.

Old pictures

I put batteries in my camera, thinking to prep it for the Outer Banks. So I popped out the SD card and put it in my laptop, just to check and make sure it was empty.

Well, it wasn't. When my mother had kidney failure in January, I competely forgot about any pictures I had taken. So below, please find two party snaps from, if I recall correctly, November. (Vic, plus two women looking quite skeptical.) Next post down is Christmas, one at my house and three at Mom's.

Christmas in May?

For the birds

May Day is typically happy; today, less so. Vic just left for 5 days in Tennessee. I have to defend my thesis on Wednesday and finish a heavy load of homework and exams to boot.

At least my sweet got to see, at last, what it is that keeps flipping over his garden-border shells. Every day when the snow is gone, Vic has found between 2 and 10 shells flipped over in the border he created for his hosta bed. Today he saw the culprits: Crows!

The one in the circle stands in front of one flipped shell, and he just finished flipping a few around the bird bath (you can see a gap). His buddy is in the oval, pretty much invisible in the shade, but guilty of much more mischief: We watched him flip 5 shells, at least (pic taken from the window; sorry about the quality).