Enjoying the wildlife.

I have been enjoying the wildlife that visits my habitat area. I never knew how many animals visit my pond and wildlife habitat. I go out at 3:30 in the morning and sit on the swing by the pond and see deer. rabbit, skunk, and many other wild animals. During the day I sit and watch the hummingbirds, Goldfinches, cardinals, monarchs and other bees birds and bugs. There are always new flowers opening and the fish keep me entertained. I have not seen my frog this year so maybe it found a new home or it died. I had him for 3 years and he always made it through the winter. The neighbor put a lock on her gate because kids kept breaking into my yard and destroyed a lot of pond plants and habitat area. I am saving to get a security camera system because they keep coming back and brag about breaking into the yard and killing fish or destroying things.
I have been spending a lot of time over at the church yard trying to fix it up. I removed a lot of Barberry bushes and dead trees. It is looking better than it has ever looked but still needs a lot of work.
I have also added a new lotus to the pond and it is getting ready to bloom. It is an East Lake Pink and will look good till my American lotus matures and gets to where it can bloom.

I have had quite a few water lilies open the last couple of weeks.

I pulled My pickerel weed and cattails last month to divide and share.

It looks like I am going to have a lot of milkweed seeds to share this year. 

Prickly Pear cactus is in bloom.

The butterfly weed has grown to the size that it looks like a shrub instead of a flower.

The bee's love the milkweed 

For years I have tried to get a photo of the hummingbirds but they are always to fast I finally got this shot. It is probably going to be the best photo I will ever get of them.

My Texas Dawn waterlily is getting ready to bloom again.

This is an east lake pink lotus that the nursery was going to throw out. I talked them into selling it to me real cheep and it has recovered and is doing great in my pond. I watch it every day in anticipation of seeing it bloom for me.

Balloon flower.

Trumpet vine.

Finished a new project to make my life easier.

I have been working the last few weeks in the church yard and it is looking good. I think I have also been doing it because I am putting off jobs I do not like to work on. Today I did one job that I have been dragging my feet on for a long time. My friend Francis has a drill that can was able to go through my stone foundation and he drilled a hole so I could run plumbing for a new water spigot. I have been wanting a spigout on both sides of the house now ever since I bought the place and today my wish came true. It was easier to install than I anticipated because I used shark bites to run it. They are great because you can easily go from copper to CPVC and there is no glue or solder involved. This will make my watering the yard a lot easier and save me a lot of time. I was dreading having to do the plumbing but once I figured out what I wanted to do it was easier than I anticipated.