Tag: birds

The hedges are 40″ tall now.

That blue spruce in the rear/right of the photo is about 25′ tall and 15′ wide here.  You can see what I was talking about in the 2011 discussion on the lawn; some of it is still green (cool season grasses) and some of it is yellow and done for the year (warm season grasses).  but notice how they did NOT blend together, they segregated.  “You stay ova dere you ugly warm season grass!  Don’t be all tryin to mingle wid us cool grasses. Nope.”

Brian and I worked together a few years ago to make this wonderful Winter Solstice Sun to go with our holiday display. It’s hardwood, with 3 heavy coats of waterproof paint.  Drilling the holes for the lights to poke through was a real chore, and each hole had to be thoroughly coated with paint as well.  All the wires are stapled down on the back.   It’s 36″ diameter.

There are 50 large C9 bulbs in the center and 300 smaller lights making up the rays. It lights up everything in front of it for 20′.  I leave my Sun out in the rose garden until February 1st, Imbolc.

One of the first Kestrels to find their way into the garden.