More from the back yard

Potentilla Indica

Ipomoea Hederacea

 

Seen in the Kitten Suite

Quark

Seen along the side of the road

Revisited the place where I saw the wildflowers in this post.  Driving by, I thought the purple flowers were the same kind of asters as those near home.  Turns out that while it is an aster, it's blue wood aster, not New England aster.  

 

Discord, doubled

9/24/24:  In Le Monde, an article headlined "La suppression de l'aide medicale de l'Etat, leitmotiv de la droite et pomme de discorde".   That "pomme de discorde" was a new one to me, so I looked it up.  

9/25/24:  Filling time until the beginning of the 7:00 volleyball match, I turn the channel to Cartoon Network.  Within a minute, one character approaches another, carrying a golden apple bearing a K.  The other character demands, "What are you doing with the apple of discord?"  

Something like that happened once before, with the word "myrmidon".  I posted something about that in 2022.  

Same Spider, Different Day

 

Another Orb Spider

 

Rescued, but still fearful

One of the dozens of cats rescued from a hoarding situation and currently living at Tabby's Place.  A visitor lies on the floor near where they are hiding, seldom speaking, except for a few soft words which are meant to get them used to human company, and from there, perhaps they can be adopted.  

 

Another volunteer

A little light rain today. Not the soaking we need, but it does add to this volunteer morning glory at the back of the property.

 

A new resident on our arbor

 

Wildflowers in Rural Central New Jersey

Taken in a large field with sizable patches of these flowers, which are the same as those in this past post.

 

Wildflowers along a creek

 

Strolling in the park one day

Atalopedes campestris, (called sachem in the United States and Canada) is a small grass skipper butterfly.

My day

I walked out to the back yard about mid-morning on a sunny, warm September day.  This is what I saw:  in the bird garden, I pulled a foot-high dandelion and found some hedge bindweed had begun climbing up the stem. . . a couple dozen tiny brown butterflies swarming across the sedum. . . frantic squawking of a blue jay from the neighbor's yard, and seconds later, I spotted a red-tailed hawk gaining altitude and flying in lazy circles above the houses. . . the volunteer arbor vitae in a pot that I moved into a sunnier area has grown until its top is above the top edge of the pot; maybe it can be transplanted into the spot in front of the garage where the original bush died. . . and the resurrected crape myrtle that is flowering right next to one of the three plants planted last year as part of the landscaping makeover.  Can it be dug up without damaging the roots to the point where it can't survive transplanting?  

Life in our back yard

Skippers on blooming sedum.  The pinker, the more butterflies.  When fully pink, there should be honeybees joining them.

On one of the sedum plants, a skipper touched a spider web and instantly the proprietor rushed toward it, but the butterfly wasn't stuck on the web and took off to safety.