Nature notes from the garden on our return...........
It's fun traveling to new places..............but there's no place like home. The blooming Peace roses beckoned as we walked up to the front porch..........
..........and the Clematis was twirling up the front steps.
On our return the garden was especially lovely and full of floral surprises..........but I won't show you the thick yellow coating and tangles of oak pollen threads covering and discoloring everything in sight! Major cleanup is underway as we scrub the cars, power wash the deck, blow away the sneeze producing pollen.......and reach for the allergy medicine. Oak pollen appears to be at a 25 year all time high...........I believe it.
An extra surprise...........a nest being constructed in the jasmine climbing the porch post and finches flying in and out. Birds active now - and as soon as we filled the feeders they were joined by our many resident squirrels. Our neighbors spied the foxes in our garden whilst we were gone......so far we don't seem to have a new family out there but who knows what might happen later this Spring.
Yes, home and garden........still my favorite place.
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