Rain

Yes finally we have rain.  Our garden is in love with the water.  We needed the water.  With all the weird weather we've been having we finally have rain.

Blueberries

Blueberries in the dead of winter

Isn't this a cool blue

Aphids

These aphids have really infected my rose

They're just bugging

Flash back

1996 Hallettsville, Tx

Darnell, sleeping with watermelon.
1996 Hallettsville, Tx

Insect pest - Black bean apids & Giant mealy hug

Ants & Black bean aphids working together.
Berkeley, Ca

Insect pests - Grey Aphids

After trimming the Ivy that has been growing on a fence for years, a group of Grey aphids were uncovered.
Berkeley, Ca

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Rose Bud

As I looked back on my life, a Rose Bud I became

young, impressionable, gentle

My stem young but sharp, green and brown

Touched tenderly by the

warmth of the sun I was thirsty

 waiting patiently for the quench of water,

water for my roots to swim in

I developed beautiful green leaves that

 shined and glistened in the sun

with a touch of red, like the sky's sunrise

I grew, grew up to be beautiful but inside

 I was still a Rose Bud

Sleeping Vine

As the moon awakens at night to shine her 

beautiful light upon me, I sleep

Touched by the gentle cool evening upon my petals

curled up by the closeness of my vine

A sleeping vine I become

As cool evening passes only to awaken to

the warmth of the sun

I become Morning's Glory