Still checking out what we have left and extra - I have listed a few plants on my page. I will add more as I discover them. Should also have some water plants, since my little pond just got overtaken. I will have all sizes of extra pots and trays good for transplanting (and swaps :-); some hummingbird feeders, and a few odds & ends garden decoration items (small ststues, etc. Maybe someone can use them or will be willing to trade some plants for them - looks like we lost alot of things in the yard while I was sick - especially during all the freezing weather this past winter. Lost all but one of my angel trumpets, some of my camelias and gardenias and lantanas -- Good thing I enjoy working in my yard because it looks like I'm going to be doing alot of it this year.

My wildlife visitors are either too far away or too quick on the wing for photos, so you'll have to use imagination instead:). Along the back of the yard stand several black cherry trees, whose fruit has been ripening in stages all month. The primary consumers are robins, with an occasional cardinal or oriole dropping by. I allowed the self-sown catnip along the vegetable garden paths to grow this year, as well as some alongside the deck, and observe the seed stalks being visited by groups of goldfinches. Suddenly I realize why the single plant from 20 years ago is now all over our acre! Red bee balm is planted in a whiskey barrel by the deck and is patronized by the hummingbirds every year. The other day, as I sat under a shade canopy on the deck, a female hummer zipped into view, pausing at a day lily blossom, then flew in between the deck posts and hovered about three feet away from me for 5-6 seconds, before flying off. I was wearing a muumuu made from very vividly colored floral fabric--including life size red hibiscus blossoms--so I surmise she was taking a closer look before deciding they weren't the real thing! The same day, I saw a pair of song sparrows apparently courting--lots of flying around after one another, culminating in some activity partly concealed by maple leaves--"what IS that male doing, just sitting there and--oops!" as the female suddenly flew out from behind the leaves and the male took off after her again. You can draw your own conclusions, LOL. And last but not least, robins nested in the white ash tree by my study window for the second year in a row. That particular tree grows clusters of witches' brooms along its branches, which seem ideal for concealing a nest. The day before the eggs hatched, the male aggressively drove off a squirrel which was thinking about climbing the trunk--after a couple of dive-bombing runs, he thought better of it...

Karen, you can add pics with the following HTML code... img src="http://somepicturesite.com/yourpicture.jpg" width=600> Just replace http://somepicturesite.com/yourpicture.jpg with the actual image location address and use whatever width you want to make the pictures fit nicely on your page (600 is probably the upper recommended limit in most cases). Do keep a couple of things in mind...Consider the sources of your pictures and any copyright/usage limitations on their images. Also, use smaller resolution images to limit download time to within reason for those with slower connections. Email me if you have ANY questions at all and I'll try to help.

Click here to visit desperationfalls' link without having to copy and paste. Interesting article and some of the comments are interesting. Some are what you would expect and some - like the one about health care - are amusing.