That represents a lot of effort and organization, J. It is truly amazing.

Love that Calcite & Quartz Geode,..beautiful colors

The Moon showing to right of the garden and sunset to the left.



Dennis the cat,..in his day and night spot.

Is there a secret way the cat gets up, or down?

Arlene,..he goes to the house on my right,..jumps up on a wall,..then the roof of that house,..walks along that roof to mine,.. then jumps on to that spot which is next doors shed that's Dennis and i think he has plans about being up there

I posted the pictures below in the Bird Thread,..should have copied and pasted

About two weeks ago i was nearly able to get to the bank of the river which is where those wood jetties can be seen sticking up.


Yesterday i could only get halfway down that road,..flooded meadows on the left,..canal on the right and flooded meadows beyond that.


A zoomed shot along the road.


Huge flock of Black Tailed Godwit.

Dennis must have GPS!

What flooding! Does this happen often?

GPS about two years ago there was a birds nest in the Clematis below where Dennis is,..i only spotted it last year,..maybe Dennis is hoping a new resident moves into the nest.

Where i live,..its a very flat area for miles,.. every year come Sept/Oct its watching the level of the river time,..its unpredictable as to how high it will get,..2009 was a disaster as was this year,.. since October houses and farmland have remained flooded and in the past two weeks the water level had dropped leading us to think it will keep dropping,..it rained up North and caused the level to rise to what you see,..looks pretty with calm water and blue sky,..i like water but not when it floods houses farmland and roads

Do any of the residents ever move to a safer location? On Long Island, after so much flooding with hurricane Sandy, I was surprised so many people remained where they lived.

One corner of my garden has a small dry stone wall across it,..i grow several rock loving plants in the wall like Campanula,..Oxalis,..and Alyssum,..mostly this is what one sees until my Lilies which are behind the wall in containers start to bloom,..deep in the corner is a ten foot tall Fuchsia,..just to give an idea how big the space behind the wall is,..below are some shots.

Taken yesterday.


Behind the wall.


How it appears in August.


Back to the present,..Primrose..................................................Cowslip.


Sempervivum.


Mystery Bulb,..when clearing an area for the new Greenhouse i found this,..i had Dahlia growing there but its not Dahlia,..could it be Arisaema speciosum?,..that's the only other plant that ever grew there.

pirl said:Do any of the residents ever move to a safer location? On Long Island, after so much flooding with hurricane Sandy, I was surprised so many people remained where they lived.

Some do move into Town when its very bad but have to return as soon as possible due to Livestock,..the latter head for higher ground where its possible but still need to have feed,..apart from grass.

People don't like to be away from home,..no matter how bad the conditions are,..i guess the idea that being on hand one can prevent things getting worse by moving belongings above water,

Beautiful, Philip!
Did the water ever recede to normal after all the massive rains a few months ago? This must be quite difficult for everyone. Except maybe Dennis.

Jeanie,..its never dropped to what we could call normal level,..that would be when one can follow the Nature Walk along the river bank,..Swans are swimming along there today,..its only dropped enough to prevent houses in Town from being flooded.

What i hate is the fact Swans are nesting where there are little hillocks of dry land,..it takes approx 35 days for eggs to hatch,..by that time those little hillocks should be little hills in the middle of fields leaving the eggs open to predators

Very pretty garden photos, Philip.

See that? I never thought of livestock!

Once again I am having 'rock" envy. I just love your stone wall and stacked rocks.

For a City Guy i have changed so much,..gone native 100%,..a friend lost two sheep and a lamb,..asked me to help look for them,..will do i said,..so he said here we are,.. where they are supposed to be,..lets think like a sheep and we might figure out where they went

My Pin Up

indygardengal said:Once again I am having 'rock" envy. I just love your stone wall and stacked rocks.

Veronica,..but i know what you mean,..every time i head up the lake in my boat i make sure to bring back a flat rock for stepping stones,..then friends give me stones for building those walls,..they feel guilty when phoning me to ask,..do you want some rocks i want to get rid of,..i never refuse one can make a garden adding rocks

I thought the stonework was 'top notch' as well.