Life In The Slow Lane
Posted in Nature on Jun 11th, 2010
They grow up so fast! The young wrens are now one week old, and starting to look like birds. I count at least 5 beaks in the nest, but there are probably one or two more. I’m keeping my visits very brief to avoid disturbing the birds any more than necessary.
These are house wrens, and [...]
Posted in Nature, Photography on Jun 4th, 2010
I normally visit the fine feathered folks at Curbstone Valley to have a Fowl Friday, but this Friday we have one of our own to celebrate.
It seems that sometime in the last 20 hours or so the baby wrens have hatched. There were seven eggs, but I haven’t been able to do a head count [...]
Posted in Photography on Jun 2nd, 2010
Posted in Gardening, Photography on May 28th, 2010
It’s cherry time here at Happy acres!
This tree was here when we arrived, so we don’t know the variety. We have two more cherry trees we did plant, but they are still small and only have a few cherries on them. The big tree is loaded this year, after getting zapped by late freezes last [...]
Posted in Photography on May 26th, 2010
Posted in Gardening, Photography on May 19th, 2010
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Southern Indiana
USDA Zone 6b
An organic gardener shares his thoughts about gardening, nature, food and being self-sufficient.
