BAAAAAAAMBI!!!

My contribution to TexWiscGirl's Good Fences #106.

Last time I put up pictures of the mountain laurels, Bambi had stuck his nose into their fences and munched significant portions of the leaves. So I used portions of an old giant TV antenna to shore them up.

I guess Bambi took that as a challenge.

Almost all the leaves gone on all four, along with a lot of stems and plenty of branches.

Theda is both shocked and stunned.

And it's not like this was a harsh winter. Or there isn't a huge field of grass a stone's throw down the mountain.

And now for something completely different.

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Bare Trees

Carmi's Thematic Photographic 363 is Bare. I have to go with a bare tree:

Wintertime: you can see where the critters place their nests:

I'm also contributing to Michelle's Nature Notes (#346). This D.C. holly tree isn't bare:

A lot of birds were interested in that tree.


Ideally, I would have put this post up a couple days ago. But I didn't, and it's almost too late for Good Fences. I can't miss Good Fences #95!


After Bambi's last attack on the mountain laurels, I enhanced their fences with bits of a great big old TV antenna:

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BAMBI!!!

Carmi's Thematic Photographic 360 is Signage. I've often wondered how this Exxon stays in business. Their gasoline prices are usually at least 40 cents higher than even the other Exxons not that far away.

I'm also contributing to TexWiscGirl's Good Fences #92. In spite of the fact that it's been warm around here and there's a big mowed field full of grass just down the mountain a bit, BAMBI!!! decided to push the fence protecting the mountain laurels down and munch away.



And here's a rose for Michelle's Nature Notes (#343):

UPDATE: Here's what they looked like in November:

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Invisible Bikes and Mountain Laurels

My contribution to TexWiscGirl's Good Fences #88. I was going to count the suet cage as a 'fence...'



But I can go with a mountain laurel roundup instead. The front two look great.


Next over is a recent transplant from the side of the house, where it languished a couple years. All things considered, it's doing well.

And here's mountain laurel #4. In May, this one was doing the best of all of them. But then it developed this brown spot leaf disease over the summer, and it still has it. Does anyone know what it is, and what to do about it?

P.S. I'm also linking to N.F.'s Trees n Bushes 35.
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The Usual Suspects

My contribution to TexWisGirls' Good Fences #22:

Round up the usual suspects...

The usual suspects departing the front yard:


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Deer Fences

My contribution to TexWisGirls' Good Fences #22:

In front of the house in West Virginia I have some mountain laurels. Here's what happens if one doesn't have a deer fence:

At the side of the house, one has been languishing for a few years. (But living...because it has a fence!) So I finally moved the entire kit and kaboodle to the front.

I had some helpers!



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Almost Heaven

My contribution to TexWisGirls' Good Fences #21:

There aren't many fences around here. There are guardrails on the roads, which are steep and get good and icy in the winter. (As you can see, they also get used.)



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Concrete Results, Butterflies

Carmi's Thematic Photographic 246 is Concretely.
I took a picture of this wall during construction last September. Now it's finished! (Note: bonus four lane closing fender bender law enforcement action.)



More concrete results: I first started trying to grow mountain laurels in front of the house in Berkeley Springs back in 1998 or some such (details are sketchy). It took a couple years before I learned that without a fence, Bambi will eat them in the winter. Anyways, for the first time ever, I saw flowers on one of them!


In other news, some butterflies.


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Honk if you love Lake Siri

P.S. I've been pondering a political post. Maybe this is all that needs be said.

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