Annie is the garden monitor.

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Beautiful duck, and Susan I love your home and yard. Is that a stone building to the left of your house?

Here's another clematis,

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Linda (who wishes her deck looked like this.)

Yes, Susan, that's a stone ice house. The walls are THIS thick. Back in the early days of the house, ice was cut at a local pond and stored in the ice house all year, to be used to chill the family's ice box. Today we call them refrigerators, but back then they really were ice boxes!

Here's a closeup of a corner of the ice house:

Beautiful everyone......in this pic Moms taking great care of her new babe......I think this is sort of like the birdie McDonalds......but, no toy with the happy meal.....

The "Barber Pole" ... tallest Joshua Palm in Joshua Tree national park.

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Jodi-

Not the sharpest pic but...he's eating a pancake. Suet was also available.

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Kim, is he sitting on his butt??

Kat, that is so sweet! Love your bird pix.

Thanks for the beautiful views, everyone!

LOL he does look splayed out. "Kids we're having pancakes for breakfast". This was at friends house.

One day there was all this mulch looking stuff on my driveway and SO truck. Looked up and the woodpecker was chucking "mulch" out of the hole. He did all that with just a little beak. I doubt I could have done it with a hammer and chisel.