Nature
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@HoraceZontal Yes, but actually a mile from the city line in Indiana where we live.
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This guy earned the name of Lenny when I discovered him hanging out with me in the she shed during winter several years ago. I left water for him and he took care of all the creepy spiders and occassional red wasps that would get in. I got him a black beetle one morning. He would often show up around me when I would be outside. When I was in the garden digging up old soil, I would find a grub and I could put it on the rock wall and Lenny would come and eat it. He learned to be near me when I was working in the garden. He would crunch them and make some funny faces getting them down. I was devasted to find him drowned in a bucket of water after a torrential rain. His descendandts live on though. We have chameleons, sand lizards and these, which are rustic lizards. You see them in the trees and scampering around in my garden. They run along the top of my flower bed railing taking care of gnats, flies and mosquitoes. That's what Lenny was probably doing on the bucket. We found him one time in the underground pipe of the condensation line from the air conditioner during the hottest part of the day. He was chilling
. Lenny comes from a Stevie Ray Vaughan song, Lenny. https://youtu.be/dmxLND2czNk?si=ka2FEwwdAEdppoKf
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@wissox83
Ah! That tracks. Reminded me of the view from a spot on the shore in Hyde Park, but it wasn’t quite right — the relationship of the Sears Tower to JH was off. -
@HoraceZontal yah, you must be thinking of promontory point, a famous park there that juts out into the lake with beautiful views!
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Today's photo is of the Baltimore Orioles that migrate through and stopped for a drink.
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Today's photo is of a couple of the many sago cactus that I planted 18 years ago. They produce new fronds each year and lose the bottom tier, so in essence you get a larger part of the trunk above ground and the new growth produces a taller plant. I cover these in the winter with tarps but a couple leaves got a bit frost bitten, but in all the 9 I have left survived. Most of them are in the ground but there are some in pots that make it easier to move. During the freeze in 2021 I lost dozens of them along with the tall Washitonian palms, like down in South Padre, and many Windmill palms. As houseplants, sago palms make excellent long-lived specimens. They are very slow growing, so be prepared to wait for at least a decade to see much of a trunk develop. Most plants grow considerably broader than tall.
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@RockChalkinTexas-0 Are sago palms and sago cacti the same thing? We had to give our 3 near our patio away to our neighbors because apparently the "fruits" they produce are poisonous to dogs. They have grown nice and lush ever since, but, to be honest, we found the dog to be more fun...
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@mayjay Do you mean "saguaro" cactus? I don't think there is a sago cactus. Mine don't have fruit.
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Loons at Stormy Lake, WI
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@wissox83 I love loons. When I see one, I say in Katherine Hepburn voice, Oh look Norman, the loons!
