All Good Gifts Around Us... 09-06-2022

We had a good hard 30 minute rain on the 3rd. There was a huge puddle in the back yard over the bare spot. Yesterday, I noticed that hundreds of little sprouts were coming up all over back there. I am pretty sure it is my straggler daisy trying to make a comeback after the long hot and dry summer. I hope I am right. It is such an excellent low maintenance ground cover.

Look at all the green! Before the rain storm there was almost none.

Here are the little sprouts. They are all over the back yard. These are actually growing in the bald spots of mud.

There are thousands of rain lily shoots. Only a small percentage of them mature to have flowers. I don't know why.

The Shrubby Copperleaf has little tiny blossoms on the tips. This is one of my pampered weeds.

This is Scarlet Spiderling. It is another of my pampered weeds in the Wildzone.

I like these pretty little flowers on the Pyramid Flower plant. Yep, another pampered weed.

female House Sparrow

Look at that cutie playing peak-a-boo!

I have lots of Tie Vines in bloom today.

More Tie Vines

Lindheimer Senna

Miss Olive was enjoying herself in the sun.

Then, this little monster jumped from the neighbor's tree to ours.

She had to forget her lazy day and get to work guarding the yard from squirrels.

The volunteer zinnias growing ridiculously tall in their tiny little pot.

Okay... I love how these look. I learned that this is a highly invasive non-native from China called a Chinese Pistache. We have a male tree that doesn't have the berries near our patio. It was a volunteer and provides the only shade we have there.

No wonder they are so invasive. The birds love the berries and pop them out all over the place.

Look... It's a dog bird scratching a flea. No, it's a juvenile Cardinal.

We won't have these pretty blossoms much longer this season.