Some Birds from the Summer

We’ve seen a couple of birds we don’t usually see. I wasn’t able to get many pictures of each, so thought I would put each of them on here. This is a juvenile yellow-bellied sapsucker. It is still brownish, and doesn’t have the red that you see on the adult sapsuckers. I’ve seen the adults […]

Hollyhocks

One of our neighbours has a lovely garden of hollyhocks. They bring back a lot of memories, as my husband’s parents had hollyhocks growing near their garage. Alcea rosea or hollyhocks as we know them range between 3 to 8 feet in height. Their blooms are along the stalks, and tend to open from the […]