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This weeks Theme is Empty
Trees in January. Empty branches, barren of leaves.
We’ve got an empty beach type theme going on across our sites today. This photo was taken one January in the Beach area of Toronto.
For some reason I’ve always liked the look of trees, especially when they are free of leaves, or in the early spring when the leaf buds are tiny and bright green.
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Our yard seems to be a haven for animals. We have all types of birds – including the dreaded pigeons, squirrels, the occasional raccoon, and then there’s the stray and or wandering cats that travel through our backyard pretty much every evening.
I didn’t take this photo, but I certainly could have. You see, we have a similar type of wooden birdhouse attached to the electric pole in the corner of our backyard. Well, the pole is actually in the very corner of our neighbors yard, but it’s our bird house on the pole.
I’ve seen squirrels site just the way this cat is sitting on the bird house. As if they were waiting and watching for something to happen down below. I’ve also see a cat, just once, perched just like this on our bird house. I’m certain the cat was waiting for a bird to either come out or visit the birdhouse.
Birds aren’t all that stupid though. I think it would have to be a pretty stunned one to visit a bird house with a big predator sitting on top of it!
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A couple of years ago I started growing black Hollyhocks in my garden. I suppose they are more of an extremely dark burgundy, but they are called black.
Nothing much happened for the first two years that I grew them. They grew but didn’t produce flowers. I suppose they must have sprouted a new plant or two somehow though, as the two clumps of black hollyhocks that I’ve been growing finally decided to bloom last year.
Hollyhocks are biennial plants. That means that they usually only grow green leaves in the first year, and do not produce any flowers. In their second year they often bloom profusely. If you grow plants that are biennial you should plant new plants two or more years in a row so that you can have some bloom from some of them each year.
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