The Saturday Report

 

 The grackle was feeding while the sun shined and its colors from the sheen of its feathers. The green colors of the head of the bird are so great and the different browns are subtle until the sum brings out the different colors.

 

 The sparrow has a lot of different browns showing in its feathers. The patterns are also created by the lighter colors of outlines on its different sets of feathers. 

 Yes, it is time to see some peony actions. The do sprout up quickly oece it warms up and the ground warms up. 

 I took a blind shot of this bird. It may not look like it but it is a very large bird. It was soaring, floating on the winds.  I am thinking it is a juvenile bald eagle as it is solid brown in color, with its wing span being so large. The head is not white until the second year of age. Being close to the big lake and the bald eagles do live all along the lake's edges. The like to fish from the lake. 

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Friday's Finds

 If I were to buy a new one of these I see thay are described as Cleveland Select flowering pear tree. They do not bear real fruit but a small fruit that is the size of a cherry.  I lost the larger on last fall as it had too many parts of it die down. The city came and took it down. 

 I was becoming impatient with the tree as it didn't seem to be very showy. I see now that the rains and time helped make it bloom better. It is just s as white as all the other trees in the neighborhood.

 

 The red bud is looking bright as the blooms start to open up more. The tree is a great looking specimen tree in shape and color. 

 

 The wild violets are blooming. I had only purple violets at our old place and here at the new place they violets are mostly purple and white. 

 This company hires the best photographers to sell their products. I am tempted to buy some potted iris and yet I have over planted things around here. I guess I could put some in the back corner where I took out the scraggly tree. The set of groups of kinds that make it so tempting to buy them. I will try to not buy any today.

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Thursday

 A walk around in the yard gives me some new views on the world. The shot of the weathered birdhouse to the newer real sized house is great. 

 

In the backyard I have the William Baffin rose coming to life again with green new leaves. It wasn't pruned back very well but the rose doesn't really care about that as it will just grow anyway on whatever is there. 

The red bud is still being so slow at opening its blooms. I guess the longer it takes the longer we get to enjoy that haze of color that is one it. 

 The workmen who removed the tree in the backyard moved my bench for some reason. Maybe they just accidentally hit the stone top with their equipment. Whatever it was they replaced it back upside down. The chunk of stone was from the old place. The kitchen had this kind of stone as its foundation material. They had taken some of it away to get from the basement to under the kitchen. This one ended up buried in the backyard. It is so heavy. The other side of it is smoother. The researched material says it is limestone, dolomite, sandstone. 

The basement was added to the main part of the house years after the house was built. The kitchen was like a summer kitchen, extended away from the main part, as the wood burning cook stove kept everything hot. They didn't put the basement under the kitchen so that is why the original stone was left under the structure. The house was built in 1912. The basement was added during the 30s. 

 I was glad to see the workmen didn't scrape away my hostas that are planted around the bench. They are just now poking through.

 

The grape hyacinth are always fun to see as that purple just pops a great color against the green. It seems to be spreading everywhere and I like that. 

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Visuals Only

 

 

Tuesday's Things

 I had a visitor a couple of days ago at the back patio. It was a friendly cat and it was in good health. I took its photo. It eventually wandered back to the crack in in the two fences of my neighbors and disappeared. She seemed to be out for andventure. 

 The grape hyacinths are up. The have spread into my yard through the years and it is nice to see the in the natural.  I just mow them off and ignore them when they are in the grass. 

My one last flowering tree is looking like this. It looks less impressive than when there were the two side by side growing there.  I would like to replant two of them but they would look funny next to the big tree. 

 The flowers are open fully now. There is not any scent with them and by fall there is a small fruit that looks more like and apple than a pear. 

 The dirty window can't block the view of the cat looking up at my pet cockatiel. She certainly could not come into our house as she can spot a meal very quickly. 

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Monday

 

Saturday's Stuff

 

 

A lone mourning dove was out at the feeder this morning.  It wasn't a very large one but I am sure it is the adult size. It is rare that they come alone. I can't see that a female would be nesting already but maybe so. 

 

 This plant usually winters over well but doesn't bloom as well as it is doing this year. Begonia is its name and I have had it in that pot for a few years now. I sprinkle fresh soil in every spring. I almost put the plants outside but now see that we may get a hard freeze in the near future. I would be shuffling them in and out so I just will wait to get them outside. 

 My Thanksgiving cactus is blooming right now. I don't really follow all their cycles but usually it does bloom in November. I guess the spring light has brought it in bloom again.

 I tried starting some zinnia inside this  year. I know they are easy to just sew them in loose soil out side but I though the nurseries sell them in starter pots. I have two special one this year and I wanted to get them to be ahead of schedule and strong before I put them outside. It won't hurt to try anyway. I am told that zinnias are a major popular flower butterfly workers like to plant in wild fields. I have had a large bed of them every year since I moved here.  We are cold and windy again today. 

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