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Weekend Picture Taking

5 June 2011

It’s been a long week­end already and it’s only noon on Sun­day :) Of course I started it on Fri­day. Early fri­day morn­ing I headed out to take some flower and yard pic­tures and to start get­ting the birds at the new feed­ers used to my being around with the cam­era. The yard is a […]

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Day 3 — Marching Bands and Plants

15 September 2010

Oof. It was late last night and I posted this entry to the wrong blog. So here it is about 12 hours late. For break­fast this morn­ing we had march­ing bands. One of the largest of the local high schools had their parade to the zocolo in honor of the Bicen­ten­nial. First there was a bit […]

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New Glass

5 September 2010

We spent a lit­tle time down at the expen­sive toy store ear­lier this week­end. We came away with two new-to-us lenses. The first is rather dull — it’s a straight across replace­ment for the 70–300 that we already had. The new one has VR, Nikon’s image stabilization/vibration reduc­tion pack­age. The longer the lens the more […]

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Still Raining (damn it)

31 May 2010

Yup, it’s still rain­ing. Three bloody weeks of the driz­zle falling down my neck. I took advan­tage of a half hour break last week­end and went for a lit­tle ram­ble about the place. Here are some pics. The red­bud is finally bloom­ing and has a few ten­der look­ing leaves. (And some of these shots are silly and arty.) […]

Tagged as: cilantro, deer trail, honeysuckle, hot tub, iris, lilac, redbud, vine maple

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Another nice Saturday in May

15 May 2010

Tagged as: maple, peonies

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Gardening Report — March 14

16 March 2010

Last week­end the front bed with the cedars in it got new shrubs. Con­tin­u­ing the theme of happy flow­er­ing shrubs and brood­ing conifers that we started with the cedars and the (now gone) bud­dleias we’ve added more happy and more brood­ing. the weep­ing cedar bed got shrubs Start­ing with the happy, a flow­er­ing cur­rant. I’ve […]

Tagged as: Chaenomeles, Chamaecyparis, cornus, currant, dogwood, juniper, juniperus, quince, ribes, taxus, thuja, whipcord, yew

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Gardening at the End of February

1 March 2010

It was a busy gar­den week­end here at Black Dog Farm. We started with a trip to Mol­baks to take advan­tage of their 30% off bare-root and b&b trees and shrubs. We started with some­thing to go in front of the three cedars. The early white blooms of this mag­no­lia shrub will lighten up the […]

Tagged as: hellebore, iris, lenten rose, magnolia, mint, peony, redbud, reticulated iris, spirea, tulips

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First Garden Report

25 February 2010

Last fall we dug up and divided a lot of over­grown plants. Among them a patch of iris so thick that it took a tree saw to hack it apart. All eight sec­tions have begun to grown nicely. I’m not sure how much bloom we’ll get this year. They’re going to look great at the back […]

Tagged as: garden, irises

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Garden Report — October 10

11 October 2009

I took advan­tage of one last day of fine weather to do a bunch of clean up and some late sea­son plant­ing. This is what hap­pens if you for­get and leave the fel­cos on the wall of the gar­den bed. Damn. That’ll take a cou­ple of hours to put right. We had a lot of damage […]

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Garden Report — Sept 1

1 September 2009

A cou­ple more notes from the gar­den. The nico­tiana in the bird bath bed con­tin­ues to thrive. This dark pur­ple vari­ety can really soak up the sun. The last man stand­ing in the library bed has been moved to a new home on the other side of the front door. Once the roundup has done it’s […]

Tagged as: cypress, nicotiana

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