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Showing posts with label Trees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trees. Show all posts
Thursday, November 20, 2014

How To Make An Easy Backyard Wildlife Habitat

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This video is one I made in our yard, showing the different elements of wildlife habitat available within it.  I don't agree with ev...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

The Odd and Wild "Texas Persimmons" Are Ripening Now

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The Wild Texas Persimmons are ripe! These turn black when ripe, and unlike orange persimmons, they don't need a frost.  The trees are...
Thursday, November 22, 2012

Happy Thanksgiving! The Immigrants Holiday Since 1540 AD

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Happy Thanksgiving! It is 6:00 am and a beautiful morning. It will be just the three of us today: Paul, me and our granddaughter. I made ...
Friday, April 20, 2012

Roses & Pecan Trees are Blooming!

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 These are from the only rosebush that survived the drought, but oh aren't they gorgeous! Paul commented that they "are almos...
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Saturday, October 1, 2011

Healing the Burns: References For Wildfire & Drought Recovery Plantings

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Every landscape contains some plants that will not grow unless they have gone through fire . These seed lay dormant, awaiting their call to ...
Saturday, August 13, 2011

RAIN!!!!! HALLELUJAH!!!

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" T he LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your ...
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Friday, March 18, 2011

Redbud Blossoms on the Table

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The Redbud trees are blooming now. Their shocking magenta blossoms cover the branches, visible from far away in their little spots tucked i...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Weather Signs & Lore: Predicting A Spring Frost

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What a crazy winter it has been! And our Spring is "acumin in" by fits and starts - like Sandy said "one day 75 and the next ...
Saturday, January 30, 2010

A House with a Name

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An unexpectedly free weekend... and it is too cold to do anything! 21 degrees out right now, my rain guage has a block of ice 8" tall i...
Monday, January 11, 2010

The Naturalist's Vintage Calendar

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This page for the week of January 10 through 16 from the 1926 John Burrough's Calendar reads " The apples that cling to the trees,...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

Hoping For A Pecan Crop Today - and 500 Years Ago

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I think the earliest mention of Pecans was in The Journey of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca , published in Anno Domini 1542 (on pages 78 and 79 ...
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Monday, October 12, 2009

Hackberries and Hackberry Firewood

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There was a small hackberry scrub tree next to the road where I gathered prickly pears, and I had to eat a couple of the ripe hackberries. W...
Friday, October 2, 2009

A Magnificent Ruin in the South Carolina Wildwoods

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When I went to South Carolina this summer to see Ethan and Valerie, they took me to the ruins of Old Sheldon Prince William's Parish Chu...