. . . . . . . in the summertime garden!
Still have some sunflowers blooming, mostly the smaller ones - this spray
of flowers is actually on one main stem and is beautiful. . . . . . and still
intact today!
Deer enjoyed a late night dinner out on Saturday!
Sunday morning brought a few choice words from me when I found they had
attacked the sunflowers and left a trail of petals, seeds and broken heads
around the front garden! You can see how thick and tough those large stems are,
however something chewed right through them to get the flower heads to fall to
the ground, where 'it' (or perhaps 'they') had a real feast.
I stuck the larger heads into the bench seat. . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . and noticed this young male cardinal enjoying breakfast today!
Note: only one of the two heads remaining - wonder if the deer returned in the
night and dragged the other one away.
On another subject, the squirrels are busy and hungry in the heat and I saw this little
one yesterday scuffling around for seeds under the bird feeder. Couldn't get a good photo,
but noticed it has a deformed left front paw - it's there but turned backward. The little one
still manages to dig, eat, and jumped up on the birdbath for water, thankfully.
FYI: The green leaves are also sunflowers - growing naturally from the seeds
dropped by birds!
Another member of the family who enjoy our garden looks really healthy
and loves the suet feeder. We try to use mostly non-melt suet cakes at this
time of year - the regular ones are so messy to deal with in this intense heat.
As for this year's fig crop, not sure what's happening. Hundreds of little
green fruits fell to the ground while we were up north, perhaps from lack
of water. Now they seem to be hanging on and perhaps there will be
some to pick later. . . . . . . but none are ripe yet.
As for chores such as weeding, sometimes a weed comes up in just the perfect place.
Another thing to ponder upon for lack of anything more pressing in the heat of the
midday sun!
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