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.