Texas style photography and words
Last year I found these flowers on clearance at Lowes.
They never died back but instead grew bigger and better.
The tag was not on the pot at the time but I think they are in the Sage family.
Clearance plants can always give you a good bang for your buck. These were 1.00 and I bought three pots of them.
Splashes of purple in the landscape add color and beauty for the eyes to see.
I am still taking pics of these huge ivy leaves they are so amazing looking.
The one with the penny on it is roughly 9″ across. It was a shiny leaf all the new leaves are very shiny.
This plant is continually making new XL leaves that seem to keep getting bigger and bigger I love it. Hopefully, I can protect some of them over the winter.
Who knew an ordinary ivy plant could produce these leaves with a little help from a bog with a pond that has goldfish and koi.
Life is full of surprises and if you are lucky you will get to witness some of them.
Cricket our Cane Corso pup turned 6 months old on August 2nd.
She is starting obedience training on August 10th. This lady will come to our home 2 x per week and work on all her commands and teach her to act like a well-behaved lady.
She is very smart and seems to pick up stuff really fast so I really think this training should work out well for her.
She starts training indoors, then we move to the yard where there are some distractions. As the weeks go on we will move to the park where there are lots of people & distractions. A dog has to be able to focus on commands in all situations.
I feel like she’s probably a 100#s now she grows really fast.
I ordered her an XL kennel and she can stand up in it and sprawl out so this one should be the perfect size for her to sleep in at night. Her collars are 23″ I just bought two new ones for her.
The plastic kiddie pools are not lasting so I think its time we get a galvanized stock tank. I found one that is 2 ft wide x 4 ft long x 1 ft deep for $90.00. Sometimes I catch her in the pool sitting up cooling off and asleep lol.
I will post an update on Cricket’s training during the next month.
I wanted a picture of the 3 girls together & this was the best I could get it is hard posing 3 dogs at the same time.
They all know the sit command quite well and in this picture, they were waiting for a treat looking like little soldiers. I did not pose them in size order they did that.
The second picture I like the way they posed themselves but Crickets ear is inside out lol but Daisy and Zoee are grinning.
Seeing the dog’s faces when a Chewy Order comes in is priceless. I think they smell the snacks. Daisy always wants to open the box. Last week I had a chewy order for $65.00 and it was just treats and toys.
Dogs make our lives better and the more you have the better you’ll feel.
The opossum are often called nature’s garbage disposal.
They eat fruit, bugs, spiders, rats, mice, snakes, compost, dead plants, and animals.
Jack has a compost pile I am sure they are enjoying. Since we have no chickens all the vegetable and fruits scraps go in there along with the eggshells, tea bags, and coffee grinds.
They can be scary looking when they show their teeth and hiss at you but they are scared of humans and will leave when they see you.
This youngster climbed this dead tree near the back fence and she stayed there a good while I think she realized she was pretty high up.
Notice how long her tail is going down the left side of the tree.
In the last week, we have seen squirrels, rabbits, and opossums. Last month it was water snakes and armadillos.
Maybe I should put out the game camera and see what else is lurking around at night.
The sunrise was pretty with the clouds highlighted by the sun’s colors.
I take pics of a lot of sunrises but sometimes they look like they have been hand-painted.
Longhorns are quite unique looking.
They are a medium-sized cow that is not real beefy looking but those horns and the speckles will let you know it’s them.
Country living in Texas would not be the same without the longhorns.
I was watering plants on Friday when I saw this tiny anole lizard.
At one point he jumped on my hand this baby had no fear. He seemed in no hurry to leave as he posed for my camera.
It’s very hard for me to show the size of this tiny baby so my guess would be he was about 1 1/2″ – 2″ from head to toe. The steel rod he is on is only 1/4″ round.
I love taking pictures of the little critters in the great outdoors.
Nature allows her beauty to surround us each and every day we just have to take the time and notice what is right in front of us.
We have a very healthy population of wild rabbits.
I found out my brother n law feeds them in the barn and they all run up and gather at his feet. My husband saw this and could not believe it.
They come over here and get in the garden and roam the yard.
The other day 6 or 7 of them stretched across the 2 acres but they were heading to his house 2 acres over from us I think he was running late feeding them.
It was like “Revenge of the Rabbits”.
The beauty of wildlife never ceases to amaze me and getting to photograph it is an added bonus.
