Wyld Carrots!

Back around Memorial Day I stumbled across a field of wild carrots (or Queen Anne's lace) while I was on the way home from shooting something else. Around that time this stuff was everywhere around here. I was actually lucky to stop when I did, because a couple of days later it had been mowed. Never pass up a photo op!

I'm always intrigued by that little purple bit in the middle.

I liked how the ladybug was hanging out right in the middle.

The Garden

Baby steps. Baby steps back to blogging. You know the drill - not enough hours in the day, yadda, yadda, yadda.

One of the things I've been doing instead of blogging is getting my garden up and running again. I got kind of a late start this year, but things are starting to look pretty good.

I couldn't find grape tomatoes this year, so I went with sweet cherries. I've had a hard time getting larger tomatoes to do well here, and I like to put the little ones on salads. This past weekend I picked a bunch of caterpillars of the tomato plant, including 4 hornworms. I'm hoping that I got them all. I'm going to be watching like a hawk for them this year (they're so hard to see since they're the same color as the plant). Those hornworms can eat a plant down to nothing in a hurry. Anyway, my fingers are crossed for better tomato results this year.

Oh, and I forgot to get a picture of the okra plant that I planted in the ramshackle remains of my raised bed in the yard. Something to blog about later.

I couldn't find any Thai basil to plant this year, but then I noticed that new sprouts were coming up from last year's plant. It's growing great now.

The garden

My first ripe tomato of the season!


I love the fuzz on tomato plants.


A Tale of Two Peppers. These were about the same size when I planted them. I have no idea why one is so scraggly now. I've watered and fed them equally.


I think it's funny that the scragglier pepper plant has the biggest pepper on it. Maybe all the plant's energy went to producing it.

This is the other Thai basil plant, which also returned from last year.

More fuzz!

A Trip To The Country

A couple of weeks of ago, the bluebonnet flowers in this part of Texas reached their peak display, so I decided to head out to the country to take a look.

Indian Paintbrush

I'm not sure what kind of flower this is.

There were a few white (or light blue) bluebonnets mixed in.

I didn't notice that this one had a little guy on it until I looked at the photos at home.

Closeup of the "little guy".

The aroma was wonderful too.

These donkeys were very photogenic.

There were also baby horses. Aww.

Again, not sure of the name of these flowers. Something to do with daisies, I'm guessing.

Yes, don't forget "Vote Day"!