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Stone's Throw

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Day 110
The beds are almost all planted!
My husband likes to say he's always liked botanical gardens, he just never thought he'd own one! #thursday #afternoon...
Day 112
Build It And They Will Come
The new garden is freshly in, and we already have two monarch butterfly caterpillars chomping on the milkweed! #saturday #...
Day 114
The Bee Yard
The first four hives are set up in the garden, and the bees are installed. There are two Langstroths, a hybrid Langstroth/Top Bar, and a...
Day 118
Peeled Juniper Cedar Limbs
Some of these were cleared from the new garden because they were crowding other plants and trees, and some were cleared bec...
Day 120
It's Like a Jar Full Of Fireflies
I love these lights! I think they will be so pretty hanging in the trees in the evening. Just wish there was some wa...
Day 125
Orchids In the Bathroom
I have always wanted to have flowers ringing the bathtub, now I do! #friday #evening #flower #plant #jar #vase #container #pot...
Day 130
My Bees!
The bee with her butt in the air is sending out "here's the way to the hive pheromones, and check out the pollen on one of the other's legs!...
Day 131
Tremendous Storm Today
The detail makes the photo--Jessie off to the right, the water shooting off the roof, and the blur of the rain in the backgroun...
Day 132
Rescued From Kaiju
My daughter rescued this little guy from one of our cats out in the yard today. He was very happy to hang out with her for awhile b...
Day 143
Double Rainbow
View from the backyard ad the storm passed over. #evening #tuesday #bow #rainbow #may
Day 145
Late Afternoon In the Beeyard
#thursday #outdoors #nature #evening #landscape #wood #tree #park #garden #grass #leaf #bench #wooden #yard #travel #sum...
Day 153
First Pass at the Edging on the Pond
Nope. This one just isn't going to work--way too jagged! #morning #outdoors #friday #old #landscape #house #water...
Day 154
Stripping the Cedar
These are the pieces of all the juniper cedar trees we removed to make way for the new gardens, pond, and apiary. The bark is bein...
Day 160
Tornado Light
This photo was not edited at all--specifically, it wasn't edited for color. If you have ever lived for any amount of time in the midwest...
Day 164
Working On the Pond
Checking the water flow for the three waterfalls from the bog pond to the pond. #outdoors #afternoon #landscape #tuesday #water #r...
Day 165
Almost a Frog
When I was cleaning out the tank where I had stored my water lilies before putting them in the pond I found this little guy. Instead of...
Day 166
Planting the Bog Pond and Putting In the Waterfalls To the Pond Below
Today the bog plants went into the top part of the pond, and the slabs were put...
Day 200
Jessie In the Pond With a Toad
We have MILLIONS of frogs on our pond right now, and there is also one big toad. We hope he's alive. Do toads go into a...
Day 211
Camouflage
It's hard to get an accurate view of the depth in this photo. The water looks murky, but it's crystal clear and the murkiness is sand and a...
Day 223
Snake In the Pond
I'm not sure he can get out of the pond. I have seen him there in just about the same spot for the past couple of days. He seems to...
Day 227
Water Lily and Frog
Spent part of my afternoon frog watching in the pond in our new garden. The lilies are all doing really well, and the frogs are sp...
Day 228
Can You See the Stick Bug?
He's in focus, and he's roughly in the middle of the shot. When I first saw him I was weeding the bed and caught a movement...
Day 232
I Never Get Tired Of This View
As evening slides into night, looking towards Austin from our back deck. #outdoors #evening #landscape #sunday #house #...
Day 238
Wet Bees
As we get the wind and the rain from Hurricane Harvey (now Tropical Storm Harvey) the bees look a bit bedraggled. I'm not sure why they were...