Sunday Walk on Monday

 First off, we were sleeping with open windows on Saturday night and into Sunday morning.   Around 4am, mom woke up to her windchimes, hanging in the apple tree, going off.  She opened her eyes and noticed me sitting in front of the window and wondered why my paws weren't on the sill looking out.  We are pretty sure it was a deer eating our apples☺

I want to know if anyone has seen trees looking so silly?!

Mom thinks the Jewelweed flower is so pretty and she always seems to get a blurry photo but she was pretty lucky this time~

We walked by a beautiful white Hydrangea~

We saw chickens in a backyard~

The Mimosa trees have already bloomed here but mom can never go by one of these trees without thinking of her Nonna.   She had one in her yard and she always said that it was a "dirty tree".  She said that about Weeping Willows too.   

Happy Monday and the last day of August!

Love ya lots♥

Duke

Silent Sunday Puzzle Selfie

 

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Duke

Nature Friday

 We are joining Rosy today for Nature Friday~~

We have had way too much rain lately but we are dodging the raindrops to get our walks in~

We are finding lots of mushrooms~

This monster is practically next to our mailbox and mom is so mean and won't even let me sample it!

We found Joe Pye Weed~

This plant is Burdock and it is in flower~   Good thing mom looked it up because it isn't a Thistle.   

We are not seeing as many butterflies as the temps keep going up and down but we did manage to catch this one on one of our Butterfly bushes!

We did see mom and her fawn in Farmer Will's field again~

Happy Friday!

Love ya lots♥

Duke

Tasty Thursday

 Today is National Peach Day!

They smell wonderful~

I love peaches!  Do you?

Love ya lots♥

Duke

World Dog Day

 

Happy Dog Day!

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Duke

Saturday Walk on Monday

 Thank goodness we walked on Saturday morning because the weather got dreary and drizzly and rainy in the afternoon and on Sunday morning it was depressing and rainy again. 

We walked by the Japanese Knotweed~

We found pretty white berries that mom googled and discovered they belonged to the Grey Dogwood Bush~

The Sumac is coming into bloom and making us think that Autumn really is on the way!

We have Chinese Lanterns in our garden at home~

Happy Monday!

Love ya lots♥

Duke

Silent Sunday Selfie

 

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Duke

Nature Friday

 We are joining Rosy this week for Nature Friday~~

Mom altered Molly's hydrangea bandana and now it fits me!

Earlier this year when mom was paying the rent, Landlady Maryann's Lunaria had seed pods that looked like these so she took a few and planted them this spring.  

They haven't grown much this summer so maybe they won't make it through the winter.  We will find out next spring.  

As we were heading home, we spotted this Cardinal flower in the woods.  Mom said that it was too far for us to walk off the road and risk getting ticks.  The red flowers are so striking.   Sorry the photo isn't better but you get the idea.  

We found pretty Zinnias~

Happy Friday!

Love ya lots♥

Duke

Wordless Wednesday

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Duke

Sunday Walk on Monday

 We had beautiful weather this weekend and our walk was so cool that mom wore a sweatshirt on our walk!

We love to see the pretty flowers that are always growing on this mailbox~

The Morning Glories are still going strong~

We were too late to catch the Sunflower at her peak~

Across the street, the Rose Campion was blooming~

When mom cut grass this week, she noticed the Quince fruit.  She had never seen fruit on the bushes before.   We asked the intermutts if you can eat them and it sounds like they are better cooked before eaten and seeing as there was only one we will let it be.  

Happy Monday!

Love ya lots♥

Duke

Silent Sunday Selfie

 

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Duke

Nature Friday

 We are joining Rosy this week for Nature Friday~~

Walking hasn't been constant this week with the rain and humidity plus mom HATES the bugs and no matter what we do to try and prevent them - they somehow always find us.  

Behind me, the huge Hibiscus are blooming~

The pretty pink ones~

The beautiful white ones~

We see a lot of wild Yarrow along the way~

As we pass by our mailbox, we keep smelling something really fragrant.  Mom looked it up and it's Sweet Pepper Bush.

We have had activity on our Butterfly Bushes by the Swallowtail~

And by the Hummingbird Clearwing too!

I have to show you what mom found on Amazon.   Who does he remind you of?  

The shower curtain is hanging in our bathroom and it looks fabulous but because our bathroom is so narrow, trying to get a picture of it with me in it is next to impossible.   

Happy Friday!

Love ya lots♥

Duke