Back For Another Yard Update?

Here are a few new pictures from the past few weeks. Earlier in the month, this roadrunner decided to lay out in the front yard and sun (?). Either that or it was suffering from seizures, a very bizarre spectacle.

Here it is sitting casually in the rocks.

And here it is cocking its head to the sky. The pictures don't do justice what this bird was doing, whilst allowing me to walk right up to it.

This is probably the same bugger that's bored holes in two of my oranges, if I had to guess.

Onto the vegetable garden.

Here's a shot of the gourd vines I'm growing. These are ones that you can make into scoopers, but I doubt they'll survive our December chill. Huge leaves, as you can see.

Here's a close up of an eggplant, that also will probably die before I pick anything off it.

And finally, a wide view of everything. Along the wall are straight-8 cucumbers, now blooming, the gourds, which are now a foot taller than pictured here. In the foreground are two tomatoes, both blooming, and the eggplant, also blooming.

Mega-Sized Yard Post

Ok, so it's been a while. It's been hot for seven months and hardly rained, so the yard has been on life support. Now, with it finally cooling off, some of the plants are blooming again.

Here's what I've got for this installment:

- Wolfberry Bush - Odd combination of puple blooms and red berries, very cool, and very SHARP branches!

- Winter vegtable garden! Cucumbers, gourds, cardinal vines, tomatoes, peppers and eggplant, in no particular order.



- Calomondon gearing up for it's huge December harvest (I hope), blooming like crazy

- New compost bin! Or a bomb shelter for trolls, take your pick.

- Wedelia, Yellow Dot, Etc - Finally blooming after struggling through our summer, too much direct sun. Spreading everywhere now.

- Chaste Tree, Monks Pepper Tree, Etc, still blooming, the leaves look horrible, but otherwise in good shape.



- Yellow Orchid Vine - Not growing as well in the back yard as the front, but there's more sun and less consistant watering. Love the shape of the blooms.




- Back corner of the yard



- Yellow Bells are blooming like crazy