Dry Days.....Wet Days

June and July have given us dry days...

that bring the bugs out...

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and wet days that keep us in...

and Magnolia blossoms wet...

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Saturday was a wet day for us...



so when Alivia came down to visit...
out came her favorite book...and
behind it she hid!




just ignoring me and...
even trying not to smile for the camera...




but actually, I later got what I wanted....
one of her...deeply engrossed in her book!



Later she was off to draw...but what would it be...



After giving it some serious thought...


she made up her mind...and created some art...
that's how I enjoyed yesterday.


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Today...being a dry day...
Herhusband walked down the drive to
retrieve the trailer from the barn...



while I waited at the gazebo...

which yesterday...being a wet day...

the swing wore a raincoat ready for rain.

So after Herhusband left to help grandson

Dustin move some things...

I went into the field...with camera...

pass the windmill...

and pass the bench in the field....

to the hillside just beyond the wire fence,

where the blackberries are....

it is quite steep here in places...

with ragged old trees...

and areas of plants with tall white blooms.

It's thick with tall straight trees...

and dense with low growing fern...

On a walk here last week I discovered...

a Hawk feather...a small snail...

then an even smaller snail...

and an old empty shell...

on the ground just beneath.

Also on that walk I placed something...

at the base of this middle tree to see

how it might change in a week's time.

This was it a week ago...a little green walnut

on a stack of rocks...even had a smiley face.

Today it looked like this...

green turned to gray... the leaf pulled away...

and the pebble fell off...

but he's still smiling.

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In a week I will return to see what I find.

On my way home this Box Turtle crossed my path..

with dark leathery skin...

and glowing pink eyes...which I just learned means

it's a male...females have yellowish brown irises.!

I found this slight heart shaped rock near him...

so I thought I'd take it home...

Eventually...I reached an entrance to field...

walked pass the pear tree...

then pass the Magnolia tree which has

a dry bloom today.

Oh, remember Alivia's artwork yesterday?

Well, she drew appropriate pictures...

One dry day.....One wet day!

Note which one includes a smile

and which one a frown!

A Little Bit of Everything

We've had several days with rain and a few

hazy and foggy mornings...a little bit of everything...

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so I 'm not surprised to find

tiny white mushrooms springing up in the dampness...
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...but I was surprised to find this little guy on the

gazebo...


-all photos enlarge-
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I think with the bright morning sun...he wanted down...




so I very gently tugged, pried him off the railing...
.
...placed him on a rock so he could find his way home.




Most mornings when I work outside...I go out

the back door...which is actually a side door...to

.

the back porch...which is actually a side porch...

.

I turn right and...

go down these narrow steps to the front yard...

then I turn left and go down these stone steps

which I made myself when younger...

I would not attempt it now!

After getting the tools from the shed yesterday...

I headed for the flower garden.

The flowerbeds needed my attention badly.

The Poppies have gone into their dormant stage...

and their yellowing plants had to be removed...

and some flowers just needed to be dead headed....

like these cheerful yellow Coreopsis.....

...the Speedwell was doing fine...no attention needed...

later...by the time I finished pruning and weeding...

I had a wheelbarrow full of "a little bit of everything"...

...something like the homemade soup

I had made the day before...
which we had for lunch after working outside...

After lunch.....
Herhusband returned to the field to cut the grass.

Our son Steve had brought his mower over yesterday...

and cut most of the yard...so I need to thank him...

Here I caught both of them mowing out front...

in the same area where the day before I caught...

this fawn approaching me...coming out of the woods....

I think I startled him...he leaped...

I thought he was running off...

but he paused a few feet away...

eating some greens....

while keeping an eye on me....

He grew less cautious.....

even comfortable...I think...

approaching me even closer.....

He stayed for quite awhile.....

...before leaping...and then running off!