Motley Monday - July 7, 2025
An assortment of garden related photos.
A sprinkler rainbow.
Bumblebees and California poppies. They look like they do forward rolls into them!
This large bumblebee in a blanketflower is a Nevada bumblebee (Bombus nevadensis). One distinguishing feature is the black spot in the middle of the golden thorax.
This Yellow-Face Bumblebee was still sleeping in the yarrow yesterday morning.
I'm not sure I posted this before. I got it at the Dollar Tree. Not one of their $1.25 items, one of their nicer products they carry now. It's metal.
I thought I'd lost Eve's Pin (or Eve's Needle) this past winter. Seeing tiny new growth, I gave it a chance and it's come back!
A Marbled cellar spider.
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My small fruited mystery tomato is a Sungold. It, and my labeled Sungold, look, at taste, the same.
Sungold
Mystery
That gluttonous snail was eating an entire baby cucumber!
The baby Canada geese are almost grown (the tree on the left are the babies)! The flock enjoys eating the grass edging a parking lot, then back to the pond behind the mill, crossing this road, and one busy one with a center divide. Of course we all stop, and the line of cars gets quite long! The weedy empty lots are waiting for new businesses to be built.
Come back tomorrow when Tuesday Treasures has some nice artwork!
The bumblebee on the blanketflower is quite nice!
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If you participate in Skywatch again, I think that sprinkler rainbow would be a great addition (even though there is no sky in it). I enjoyed these pictures. I don't know one bumblebee from another. I know I've seen some in recent years larger than any I used to see. I need to learn to ID them.
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