I know... You think dandelions are weeds and pay money to poison them in your yard. This one is in my Wildzone. I hand pull any others that come up.

My native Lantanas did NOTHING last year. I think I over-watered them. I was really happy to find them coming up again.

This is the bigger of the two Lantanas. They are in the Wildzone, so they aren't in a pretty mulched landscape.

This is my Wildzone. It is a whole corner of the back yard. You can see the borderline when I mow the lawn

Whenever a branch drops off of my hackberries, I throw it in the snag pile.

This is the bud on Jared's Aloe Vera.

The Aloe Vera got a little beat up during the December freeze. It was covered, but the wind blew it off.

I forget what these are. They came back from last year.

This beautiful blossom is on our Nearly Wild Rose bush. It only gets those five petals. I can't capture the pink very well.

These beetles only live on new growth of Mountain Laurel.

They are pretty little things. They don't do much harm, unless there is an unusual plethora of them.

Rachel is in charge of the front. She has a nice mix of natives and non-invasive non-natives. I can't wait to see it fill in.

Rachel planted two new plumbagos this year.

I think this is another geranium.

I like the way she grouped these pots. That is a whole patch of Greg's Blue Mist flowers in the upper right hand corner. It will take off and take over in a few weeks.

In the lower left is a Blackfoot Daisy plant. It is a Texas native. Rachel planted about eight of them a few years ago. Only one of them survived. This one was not as full of blossoms last season.

Here is another infested area of Mountain Laurel.

This lady Cardinal spent an inordinate amount of time on this feeder today.

I went and sat in the hidy-hole for awhile. There was a lot of titmouse action. but not much else.

These Crested Titmice take one sunflower seed up to a branch and bang on it to get the shell off. The do a quick touch and go on the feeders, unless they have to dig for the seed they want.

Sweet little female House Sparrow.

Crested Titmous again...

He is holding that sunflower seed up like a prize!

Pondering another attack on the feeder.

I know this isn't a great photo. I used it to show how all the sparrows line the fence and fill the trees in the Wildzone. I watched as males mounted females for a second or two. I am assuming that is the mating process. Very quick! Okay... yes that is it. I just watched a YouTube video.

Visitor on the BirdBuddy that did not get captured by the camera...

Miss Olive working on her tan.

Woody suddenly landed in a tree about 6 feet from the hidy-hole. I hoped he would turn and face me, but he was too busy planning his next move.

That's right... He flew over to the BirdBuddy and stayed on it for about 5 minutes. The camera ignored him!

This pretty male House Sparrow was perched in the Wildzone waiting on a lady.

This Green Anole came through the gap in the privacy fence about three feet from where I was sitting in the hidy-hole. I snapped a few shots before the thought better of it and went back through the gap.

Sparrows sitting in the Wildzone trees

This fly had just gotten a drink of water and was drying his front feet.

Straggler Daisy

I love this color of rose.

This one is pretty, too. They are both on the same plant.

Nearly Wild Rose

Mealy Blue Sage

There's a yellow rose in Texas that I am going to see...

Mealy Blue Sage patch is blooming. It will be full of bees and butterflies before long.

pretty White-winged Dove

Meanwhile... Back on the BirdBuddy Smart Feeder...

Lincoln's Sparrow

Very pretty bird that only eats in the grass.

He found the remains of my seed ring and chowed down. Even when Miss Olive went within two or three feet to look at him, he just kept eating.

Sky through a budding tree...

One of our two replacement Bulbine plants...

They kind of look like succulents. I don't think they are though.

That's my little Mexican Buckeye thriving in the WildZone near the snag pile.