Ruby-Throated Hummingbird: 13 May 2007

We just love watching the Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds sip at the Pineapple Sage!
Here is some video of the hummingbird too.

Front Garden 15 May, 2007

Pair of Cardinals

One of the coolest things about living in Georgia is that we've gotten to see some different type of birds like Cardinals! They are so pretty and are always together in a pair!
We bought a feeder and found out what seed to buy that would attract mostly Cardinals and Safflower seeds fit in that category.
Here are some video we took this afternoon! The male is very loud and makes a chirping sound almost constantly...that's how we know they are nearby! LOL

Here's the Male and Female, it always seems like the male checks things out first and then the female comes over after him.

Back Garden May 12, 2007

Pineapple Sage for the Hummingbirds

Gerard got these photos of a Ruby Throated Hummingbird today! We just love watching them hum around their favorite flowers. The one he's at in the photo is a pineapple sage and if you brush the leaves it smells like pineapple! So far it seems to be their favorite flower in our garden right now.

Back Garden

The blooms on Climbing Peace rose haven't done too well because of the freeze. But other flowers have been doing great and were protected well enough.

We love sitting out here and just enjoying the garden!

Hummingbirds have already started visiting!

We spotted this Fuchsia at Lowe's and just had to buy it! We had one last year and the hummingbirds loved it!

Front Garden

Here's the front garden as of late. The freeze we had really hindered things even though we tried to protect stuff. All the first blooms have been disappointing! Kind of discouraging but hopefully the garden will start to flourish now.

Red Climbing Rose and Clematis

Georgia Wildflowers at Euchee Creek 1 April 2007

If anyone knows exactly what any of these wildflowers are please leave me a comment. I've done some research but I'm not familiar with all of them and sometimes the photos I see don't look exactly the same as what I photographed. I'm using on-line resources and the National Audubon Society's "Field Guide to wildflowers Eastern Region" to do my best and find out what each one is. It's a lot of fun but it's only our hobby and we aren't professionals!On Saturday we went for a walk at Euchee Creek and saw tons of wildflowers but had forgotten to take the camera with us! So we had to come back for another walk on Sunday after church with the camera and take photos. The photo above is part of the boardwalk that goes over the swamp area, the rest of the way has asphalt walk ways.
There was one wildflower that was so stunning that looked like a wild Azalea and we did research online and found THIS that it is indeed a wild Pink Azalea. It was beautiful and smelled wonderful like honeysuckle...when we returned on Sunday looking for it we could not find it anymore we found the spot it had been and saw that someone had ripped it out of the ground all that was left was a drying out root ball! It made us so sad that someone would do that! It's such a shame that someone would just take a wild plant, it just seems so selfish because now no one else can enjoy it! It was the only one of it's kind in the area too. What makes me even more upset is whoever this person is will probably kill it by sticking it in their yard.
Here are the cute little wild violets that we spotted.
Here's a good flower focus shot, I believe this is either the "Common Blue Violet" or the "Marsh Violet" Click Here for a link to some Wild Violet info.
Here's a photo with the leaves in focus.
This one is another shade and is a light blue.
This little one is much smaller than the wild violets and has different leaves as well. It's white colored and is called a "Field Pansy"
These little flowers look similar to "Bluets" but don't have yellow centers so I'm not sure what they are.
This is a closer view of them.

I think this is an "Indian Strawberry"

Here's a close up of the little strawberry forming.

"False Garlic"

"Wild Pink"
"Rose Vervain"
"Violet Wood Sorrel"
Focused on the flower
Focused on the leaves.
"Yellow Wood Sorrel"
"Carolina Mallow"

Unknown

Vetch
"Lyre Leaf Sage"

Here's a Dogwood Tree.

Close up of a Dogwood flower.

We spotted this little lizard and took a photo.