My corns started flowering...

And I have been enjoying cucumbers freshly picked from my garden. I eat them with vinegar diluted in water, plus onions, black and red pepper powder, and salt...

I also get onions, as needed for my cooking, from the garden. However, I am not yet harvesting them at this time...

I have also been getting not-so-red tomatoes. Combined with patis, they are the perfect appetizers for fried fish, nilagang baka, etc. 

I was picking wild raspberries in my garden, and I saw this spider... 

Mom said these are coneflowers.



This are nasturtiums, the seeds sof which I sowed last spring when I was quite sure (upon my in-laws' advice) that there would be no danger of frost. My readings said these are edible.

These were the bales of hay on our field. The red thing at the far right is the roof of our house. We had to store these bales of hay at Dad's barn for winter grass feeding of the cows.

My cucumbers are growing fast...

corns were almost blown down by the recent thunderstorm, but I managed to restore them to upright position...

my tomatoes have lots of small green fruits already

Potatoes are so bushy now...pretty soon they will wilt and I will have tons of potatoes for salad.

My carrots have also grown bigger after I have thinned them...

My peppers and onions...

My beet greens which I left behind to experiment whether they will have those bid red tubers which are nice to include in potato salad for color variation.

What could this be? Is this a kind of mushroom that is more advanced than the usual in that they have flower-like growths? I could only surmise it is a kind of mushroom because of the lack of chlorophyll that gives the plants its green appearance...

This is a tedder, for fluffing up hay so it will dry faster...

Gary baled the cut hay (which Dad did earlier)...Had to finish that before it rains again (tomorrow).

These tractors are the big boys' toys...Men are always looking for an excuse to use them...and haying and baling are "play" to them.

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More daylilies (of a different color than the first I posted)...these are those next to my veggie garden.



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Can anyone help me identify these flowers? Hummingbirds like them.

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A frog and a toad now reside in our fountain.

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These are irises that I transplanted. I read in a magazine that irises usually bloom in late spring or early summer, and that the best time to transplant them is during mid-July! And I had been waiting for it to bloom...So what I did was I pulled out some daisies from this spot and transplanted the irises. Hopefully they will bloom next year...

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A forumer in asawa.org wanted some insight from Filipinas about their first winter experience. One suggestion I gave was to have a dark surface on which to catch snowflakes when the snow falls. He said it was new to him...so I am posting here some quite blurry yet clear enough to see such snowflakes. Best to catch them at a time when snow falls thinly (if they fall in clumps, they'll melt before you even get to see the individual flakes).

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These are snowflakes caught the moment it starts snowing, with the surrounding air cold enough to not melt them while they descend. The snowmobile seat is still not fully covered with snow so it makes the individual flakes distinct enough to see the hexagonal pattern.

Baby racoons scavenging for food...they were attacking our garbage cans. No matter how angry one might be because of scattering of trash all over the place, how can he/she be when she sees these cute faces?

My first harvest of green peppers...

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Additional new blooms (they're annuals from my Mom, but I don't know what they are)

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Found this small nest (the hollow middle just about the size of a regular egg) on the lawn.

Tomatillas (husk tomatoes) are used for salsa, according to Mom.

The lilies along the driveway near the vegetable garden also have started to bloom.

False Sunflowers

As the name implies, these are like miniature sunflowers.



I gathered some and arranged them in a vase -- beautiful...

Zinnias...small yet lovely and dainty.