Day: September 8, 2008

My Garden, Photography

Bee and Sedum

Shelly

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This bumblebee really, really, really likes sedum. Even repeatedly bumping the plant with my camera strap didn’t disturb him.

I’m pretty sure that my mom originally told me that the sedum she has is bright red, but then she decided that she also had some pinky-colored plants, as well. Since she didn’t see where, exactly, I took this start from, she didn’t know which color I had. I’d say those are pinky, which is not at all the same thing as bright red, but I’m not complaining. The color is light and delicate and very pretty. Andalsoplustoo, this means that there is still red sedum to be raided at my mom’s house. Ahem. We’re practicing looking on the bright side, see?

Photography

A Visitor

Shelly

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Miss PossumPants is about a million years old. She’s lived here for years, and was apparently hit by a bike or car, because she has some serious mobility problems. She’s also got cataracts in both eyes and appears to be deaf as a post. I wouldn’t have known that she was out on my patio, except that Harriet and the cat suddenly got Very Interested in the live action nature TV. When I went to look at what the uproar was about, I saw Miss PossumPants with her nose plastered against the outside of the patio door. I don’t know what the hell she thought she was doing, but it was pretty funny.

I tried to shoo her away, but she was either unimpressed or unaware of my presence. She decided to have a nice, leisurely drink from the upturned rim of a big flower pot, so I went and got my little camera.