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Petals & wings in my yard Aug. 25, 2007
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WTxDaddy
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Joined: 30 Jul 2007
Location: West Texas (Map)
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| Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:04 pm Post subject: Petals & wings in my yard Aug. 25, 2007 |
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This is what I found in the yard this morning, Aug. 25, 2007. We had a nice half-inch rain in a rather violent storm last night.
Hibiscus
Cosmos
Coneflower
Gaillardia Daisy
Plumbago (Leadwort)
Rudbeckia
Rudbeckia
Zinnia
And then some of those "speedy little stinkers" too:
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Droopy
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| Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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 If that's how your garden looks after a storm, I wish you several more! Absolutely gorgeous blooms. I love your Zinnia. And the birds, too.
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WTxDaddy
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Location: West Texas (Map)
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| Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:15 pm Post subject: Storm |
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We had a get-together in the backyard last evening and knew there were storms around us, but heard, they were headed elsewhere. Then, some more cells formed nearby & headed our direction. People started packing up & leaving & right as the last few took off, the wind picked up to about 50 mph. We moved the furniture back onto the covered porch & I deflated & dismantled the inflatable "jumpy house" (used by my daughter & her friends) and got it all out of the yard when the rain hit. We were fortunate that we did not get hail. Some places got some good hail - never good for a cotton-growing region. But in West Texas, it never just rains a steady rain - or rarely anyway. We get our weather all at once, lots of winds, thunder, lightning & hail, down-bursts of tremendous strength and then a heavy rain. It's usually over in about an hour & we go back outside. When we do get steady rain - like an all-day rain, it's usually some tropical depression has made its way to us in the Summer & Spring. In Winter, we usually get rain that's slow & steady if a big snowstorm is hitting just North of us. We get some snow each year, but only rarely over an inch at a time.
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zuzu's petals
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Location: Coastal N.Carolina ~zone 8~ (Map)
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| Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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 Sounds like you had an exciting evening WTx!
I'm glad it was no worse, and that you were able to get everything under cover in time.
Your photos are great, you have some lovely and very happy looking plants there, 
the hummingbirds seem to be very grateful for all your efforts.
I'm impressed at how many great pix you caught of them,
the best I usually get is a photo of the empty place where one used to be. 
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WTxDaddy
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| Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:57 pm Post subject: hummers quick |
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Believe me, zuzu, I end up deleting a bunch of close-ups of blurred foliage & blooms when I snap shots of the "speedy stinkers". I think glandann called them that in response to a post of mine once. I like the term & use it now. I take lots & lots of pictures of hummingbirds, then have to sit down & go through all of them & delete the poor quality ones & keep the better ones. Since the picture I took on Aug. 11th, I have not had any of that quality since. But I did get all excited this morning, because I was able to get quite close to 2 different hummingbirds. One I've seen a lot, but have never been able to photograph. He is orange and the shots I took of him this morning were all blurred. Darn camera keeps focusing on stuff behind him, or he's just to darn fast! I've about had it with my wife's hummingbird feeder. My camera loves to focus on that, when I'm taking a picture of a hummer simply near it. I get a blurred bird & a clear feeder. Not what I was after!
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eileen
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| Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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I love your Gaillardia Daisy WT - such glorious bright colours. So pleased that you got everything tucked away before the weather broke. Keep taking piccies of those hummingbirds as I simply can't get enough of them.
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Netty
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| Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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All very pretty pictures WTxDaddy. I just love the Plumbago...do you know if it's hardy in zone 5? Great Hummingbird pictures too.
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WTxDaddy
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| Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:26 pm Post subject: Zone 5 |
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I don't know if it's hardy in your zone, but I imagine you can at least have it in Summer. It seems to have rhyzomes & spread. I have it in shade (a lot was here when we moved in), but I think it can take some sun.
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