‘Elm Leaf’ Poem

Written by The Silicon Tribesman. All Rights Reserved, 2022.

And so it begins: 

Wednesday backyard harvest, part 1: 

Volunteer sunflower: 

Our candy cane peppers are starting to make: 

Just a few hummingbird photos: 

Bees at sunset:

Spider on a wire: 

Wednesday backyard harvest, part 2:

Despite the below freezing overnight temps, the water fountain didn’t freeze: 

Frost on a collard green leaf: 

The fountain didn’t freeze but our hummingbird feeders did. Although ruby-throats are the only hummingbirds that breed here & are long gone by now, we keep the feeders filled year round because our area sometimes get stray Western species like the Rufous hummingbird that, even though the numbers are small, seem to be increasingly overwintering here: 

Something I tracked in: 

The first mustard green to break ground: 

A pretty good shot of how big our neighbor’s oak trees are: 

Being close to the house helps but petunias are tougher than you think: 

Squirrel nest and gray squirrel: