Hi all,

Starting off the new Bee Friends and Other Garden Guests for 2021 with these garden guests.





Can't wait to see everyone's pictures and hear about all your garden guests! May 2021 see your garden filled with many friends!

Okay, I think the other new thread has been deleted b/c I can't find it anywhere. Christine @wildflowers had tagged me but it's disappeared.

The ghost thread.

Thanks for the new thread Joanna.

flaflwrgrl said:Okay, I think the other new thread has been deleted b/c I can't find it anywhere. Christine wildflowers had tagged me but it's disappeared.

The ghost thread.

Thanks for the new thread Joanna.

Right! I didn't think it would happen that quickly, but it did! Boy, they're really on the ball!

The thread ghosted us!

Thank you Joanna!

We all got ghosted! Ohhhhhhhhhh the horror!!!!!!

It's my pleasure! And since we're talking about ghosting, here's someone who ghosted me in 2020...it's Little Green!



Little Green is probably underground somewhere, preparing for 2021 in warmth and comfort. I believe they actually hibernate.

Apologies for posting pictures from 2020--I have no visitors right now except the dark-eyed juncos and the black-capped chickadees who will not let me take their pictures. And certainly, I have no bees because there is nothing here for them to bee eating (sorry )

wildflowers said: The thread ghosted us!

Thank you Joanna!

...sorry...

Who knew they would be so fast???

Little green is so pretty.

You are right, they do hibernate:

Smooth Greensnakes emerge in April or May and mate by late spring or summer. Females lay one to two clutches of four to six eggs, which are laid from June to September. Nests are located in rotting vegetation, beneath logs or flat stones, and in small mammal burrows. Young snakes are dark olive or blue-gray in coloration. Adult and young snakes are active until late September when they spend the rest of the year hibernating below ground. Preferred hibernacula include rodent burrows and subsurface ant chambers. It is not uncommon for Smooth Greensnakes to overwinter communally with Ring-necked Snakes, Dekay's Brownsnakes, Red-bellied Snakes, and Common Gartersnakes.

https://www.mass.gov/files/doc...

flaflwrgrl said:Little green is so pretty.

You are right, they do hibernate:

Smooth Greensnakes emerge in April or May and mate by late spring or summer. Females lay one to two clutches of four to six eggs, which are laid from June to September. Nests are located in rotting vegetation, beneath logs or flat stones, and in small mammal burrows. Young snakes are dark olive or blue-gray in coloration. Adult and young snakes are active until late September when they spend the rest of the year hibernating below ground. Preferred hibernacula include rodent burrows and subsurface ant chambers. It is not uncommon for Smooth Greensnakes to overwinter communally with Ring-necked Snakes, Dekay's Brownsnakes, Red-bellied Snakes, and Common Gartersnakes.

https://www.mass.gov/files/doc...

Well then, Little Green is probably a 2021 guest because I have a complex rodent burrow under my tiny garden! I know there are no rodents in there because, well, let's just say that I took care of that in very swift fashion.

Little Green is so pretty...I saw one right after hurricane Michael...only one before or since.
Once again...since she got deleted...Dixie sends happy wags for 2021 and puppy dog kisses for all the 2020 booboos 🐶😘

gingin said:Little Green is so pretty...I saw one right after hurricane Michael...only one before or since.
Once again...since she got deleted...Dixie sends happy wags for 2021 and puppy dog kisses for all the 2020 booboos 🐶😘

Ginger, do you have any pictures of Dixie?

Miss Brat Dixie doesn't like her picture taken...she usually barks like a crazy woman at the camera but here are a couple

Ha...just woke her up and clicked before she realized








Ok enough Dixie since she is neither bird nor bee nor butterfly...she is just a sweet old lady and my heart 💜💜

gingin said:Ha...just woke her up and clicked before she realized








Ok enough Dixie since she is neither bird nor bee nor butterfly...she is just a sweet old lady and my heart 💜💜

But she must visit the garden from time to time, right?

Not much bug life in my garden, either, but lots of birds at the feeders which Marley the Cat likes to watch when he's not basking in the sun.


He's no friend in the indoor garden. This was his accomplishment yesterday:


Mama was NOT pleased.

Bad Marley...you have a partner in crime....Dixie TOTALLY destroyed 2 of the 5 azaleas between the patio and house.back in the day. She still loves her BIG ball as some of you may remember but no longer balances it on her nose and runs with it. Hey at almost 14 she is entitled to just bark at it and "weed" for Momma. Bush or whatever gets in the way she destroys😏😏
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Well, I was up late for New Years Eve ball drop, something I haven't done in YEARS but my neighbors were giving a party last night on their CARPORT, in the pouring rain and a chilly 35 degrees. I woke up hearing a thunk thunk sound coming from their carport; it was all the kids whacking a huge piñata,why couldn't they do that inside? So the kittens were discombobulated by the change in schedule and all the fireworks outside, so went on a rampage and ripped over my lime tree! No damage, but dirt flying all over the place!
Peek a boo!
No insects outside here, either, so one from the summer.

Today's bee. For the new thread and the new year:

evermorelawnless said:Today's bee. For the new thread and the new year:

WOWWWWWWWwwwwww, what a great bee picture Asa. One of your best (not that I've seen them all).

Here are pictures of the out door kitty

Our Indoor Cats are not thrilled with her being out on the deck!