I’ve accumulated several pictures of outdoors things during my blog hiatus.
Here is a picture of two beautiful, healthy-looking hydrangea plants along the back of my house. They didn’t flower this year, but that’s OK. The leaves are shiny and green enough that I don’t care too much. Maybe next year.
My ferns have loved the weather this summer. Here’s some fiddlehead action:
While out for walks, we’ve noticed a couple of frightening hornet nests. There is a starter one near the front porch here, and I’m monitoring its possibly stalled development.
The cats proved to be very poor hunters of mice, but I’d like to think they’d show this chipmunk who’s boss if we let them:
I took this with my phone. I think it is one of the better phone pictures I’ve ever taken:
I’m always trying to take pictures of hummingbirds:
This is obviously not outdoorsy, but here’s a bonus cool thing I got this summer: