Random and miscellaneous garden photos
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Green Anole Males doing battle. They got after it, the bottom lizard won.
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"No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden."
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Since we’re on the topic…
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Wet and windy side of a Hawaiian island, just living the dream
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No snakes allowed in the garage. They are welcome in the garden.
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Going lazy this year. Found some plastic in the garage and ordered some Automator trays. Just need to add the cages now.


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The shape of that snakes head would sure get it mistaken as poisonous.karstopography wrote: ↑Mon Apr 21, 2025 6:53 pm IMG_6092.jpeg
I shooed with some difficulty this Plain Bellied Water Snake out of the garage moments ago, but not before it did its best impersonation of an angry water moccasin and a skunk. My wife asked me what in the world stinks so bad in the garage, it was musk of this snake.
No snakes allowed in the garage. They are welcome in the garden.

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I believe the snake is counting on that as a defense. Funny, before it was threatened by our mutual surprise seeing each other in the garage, the snake’s head is narrow like a non venomous type. This snake has the ability to flare out its head when it feels cornered. Early on, I took good look at this snake just to be sure. Plain belly, check, head shape prior to the threatening mode was narrow, check. Round pupils, check.pondgardener wrote: ↑Tue Apr 22, 2025 9:32 amThe shape of that snakes head would sure get it mistaken as poisonous.karstopography wrote: ↑Mon Apr 21, 2025 6:53 pm IMG_6092.jpeg
I shooed with some difficulty this Plain Bellied Water Snake out of the garage moments ago, but not before it did its best impersonation of an angry water moccasin and a skunk. My wife asked me what in the world stinks so bad in the garage, it was musk of this snake.
No snakes allowed in the garage. They are welcome in the garden.![]()
The snake got in behind my kayak and our corn hole and washer game boards and I was moving all the stuff around to get to the snake. I used a kayak paddle to gently encourage the snake to vacate the premises, but I don’t think the snake thought I was being quite gentle enough. It lunged at me several times, mouth wide open just like a cottonmouth.
The natural oxbow lake I live on has three species of water snakes. Plain bellied, broad banded and diamondback. My friend that hates snakes says they all look like water moccasins and they all kind of do. Not sure why, but I’ve yet to see a water moccasin on this lake in fifty years of living here, but they are certainly nearby. Saw a bona fide water moccasin while kayaking on the Brazos River not two miles away in the autumn of 2024. This viper was swimming on the surface and paused immobile as a slowly slid by. We both got a real good look at each other.
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Neighbors' Magnolia in magnificent full bloom:
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I somehow managed to catch up to this one hovering around my squash. My Tempest squash looks like it’s on its way out thanks to the SVB.
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The Zinnias are starting to pop.
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Blooming now: crinum, gladiolus, canna lily, fan favorite Cat Whiskers, and volunteer red and white Summer Jewel salvia sprouting up everywhere.
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I've never met Cat Whiskers before. What an appropriate name! Beautiful.
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The Calendula have been blooming for two months plus.
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Love that Cardoon flower!!!
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I am so glad I live in Manitoba, where the worst I see are garter snakes. Why, I even picked one up at the snake den, where in the spring thousands of these "beauties" are wriggling and coiling around each other to get to females. There are so many of these snakes at the snake den that you have to be careful you don't step on them as you are walking around. They will crawl up your leg and into your boots, etc. if you are not paying attention. They are even hanging from trees. I'm not making this up.
https://roadtripmanitoba.com/narcisse-snake-dens/
I am so glad I live in Manitoba, where the worst I see are garter snakes. Why, I even picked one up at the snake den, where in the spring thousands of these "beauties" are wriggling and coiling around each other to get to females. There are so many of these snakes at the snake den that you have to be careful you don't step on them as you are walking around. They will crawl up your leg and into your boots, etc. if you are not paying attention. They are even hanging from trees. I'm not making this up.

https://roadtripmanitoba.com/narcisse-snake-dens/
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Tiger lilies blooming now. There are five plants..
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