Lamb's Ears

Lamb's Ears: So-called because of the soft leaves and the shape when fully grown.

Astilbe

This plant is hardy, survives the cold Northeast winters, and returns each year. It's not very particular about the soil.

Tangle of Vines

The tree is living,
Strangled by A Hitchhiker
Or Embraced by a Close Friend
Who Won't Let Go

Blood Red Sky at Sunset

Mantis

Hitchhiker

The New English Daisies

 

I had second thoughts about this plant. It looked delicate. Turns out it was hardscrabble and determined to survive. It lasted well into the heat of deep summer.

The Bridle Wreath

 

Brief but beautiful...found somewhere along a roadside ditch and transplanted...

Bird Bath

 

Somewhere beneath the snow is a flower garden..

Tracks

 

Walters' Farm...

 

Not waiting to have her picture taken...

 

And sat down beside her...

 

The scrub oak trees are covered with lichen in the early spring. One of the Singer barns is down below and to the Southwest.

 

View from the cliff above the Singer Farm on an early spring day.

 

The turtles appeared in the spring, and reappeared for several days, laying their eggs in little dugouts of earth and then vanishing into the summer heat.

An Odd Thing Happened

There is a stone row intersecting our property. Hornets like to nest there among the rocks. One morning I went out to tend the garden and noticed a swarm of angry hornets. I saw a newly dug hole where the bees had had their nest. I thought that someone had removed a large rock from the wall. I couldn't get near to inspect it but, when I could, there was a network of "combs" not unlike the honeycombs of honey bees. I researched for a good while and then learned that skunks, raccoons, bears, coyotes, and foxes will dig up the hornet's nest and eat the "combs", essentially a bouilliabase of hornet eggs. I still wonder how it happens. The bees swarming around, angry.

Coreopsis

 

Coreopsis is a new addition to the Lamb's Ear Garden Spot. We didn't expect to like it so much.

Bleeding Heart

The plant has strange leaves, blooms in early spring. This one has been sectioned off and transplanted in dozen places and has survived several generations.