While sifting through old stuff, I found this. It was taken when we were building our house.
The python was a premiere "rodent exterminator."
But that was years ago...
Some of my spring bulbs have produced leaves, but I'm not sure which is which as a very whirly wind blew the name tags all over the place! But that's OK. Once they've flowered, I'll lift them and replant them along the back fence next year.
I snapped off several flowering stems of Salvia leucantha when the wind threatened to decapitate them; They are still holding-up, along with a few camellias.
I call him/her "Mittens." Lives two doors down, but seems to be the boss of the street.
And that's it for now. I seem to have picked up a bug and my nose wants to drip all over the keyboard...
CLEAN UP! IN AISLE 8! Give the lady a tissue!!!!
ReplyDeleteBeautidul stems Dinah. I myself hit the greenhouse again for some more annuals for fill in. The spring is really shaping up this season. The garden is glorious right now.
Thanks, Maddie;we did a quick grocery run yesterday and I've stocked-up on tissues.
DeleteThat's a big snake!!! What type is it? And what did you do with it?
ReplyDeleteHow is your new cat? Is he settling in?
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A harmless (to humans) carpet python. The Tripod was named Leo by SPCA staff, but Bitey seems a more apt monica! He's ruling the roost...
DeleteWell, if Ms Scarlet's not going to say it, I will:
ReplyDelete"WOW, YOU LOOK GLAM!! EVEN WITHOUT NAIL VARNISH YOU’D LOOK LIKE A MOVIE STAR!!"
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That pink camelia is almost unbelievable! It's so perfect and glossy that it looks plastic. Amazing!
Bitey took advantage of The Father's dithering in a doorway yesterday and ran off up the road. I heard him barking as I went to retrieve him and assumed he'd found a deer. Instead he'd cornered the neighbours cat and just stood there quivering with indignation barking at it, poor thing. "Mittens" looks like he would have given Bitey a claws out clout around the chops for being so impertinent.
Mittens makes a daily inspection of what he deems HIS patch. So far the tripod has not "met" him. But one of us goes out with him when he wants to scamper around and climb trees...
DeleteImpressive python, Dinah! As Mr DeVice observes, we have seen your "Movie Star" photos here at some distant time ago. It's still fab, even twice 😍.
ReplyDeleteCamellias and salvias overlapping? That's unusual - but a beautiful combination. Jx
We've had a lovely sunny autumn thus far so lots of things are flowering while some have hunkered-down for winter.( If you don't already have S. leucantha, I highly recommend it.)
DeleteIt's on our wishlist, but I need to be sure it will be OK to grow permanently in a pot, as we have no beds in which to grow it... Jx
DeleteI usually take cuttings in autumn and have had it grow happily in a pot.A fairly large pot as it can be quite tall.
DeleteI'm not sure what I'd make of a snake that size living with me. I don't think Eloise cat would approve, anyway.
ReplyDeleteIt was put in a feed sack and released in the bush behind a neighbour's place, Zoe. And I would NOT have been that close to any of the venomous slitherers!
ReplyDeleteI wish I looked that glamorous out in the garden! Love that camellia!
ReplyDeleteI feel sure I remember having seen the snake photo before. Having handled a couple of pythons a few years ago, they no longer make me weep in terror, but that's about all niceties I can say about them.
ReplyDeleteJust as well you weren't there the night the Siamese cat brought in a red-bellied black snake! Venomous , but OK if you get to a doc for anti venom fairly quickly. No one got bitten and those long-hnadled BBQ tongs were, after that episode, kept with the
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Lovely photos. Mittens is a beautiful cat. Warm greetings from a retired lady living in Montreal, Canada ❤️ 😊 🇨🇦
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