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Our Hiawassee home and vicinity Various Images - 2021 |
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Our Hiawassee home and vicinity Various Images - 2021 |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2021) |
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| Late January - post-sunset sky |
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| Early February - post sunset We get the nicest sunsets from our deck in the winter... |
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| Early daffodils |
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| More post-sunset skies, this time in late March. |
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| Late afternoon sun shining on Eagle Mountain, Bell Knob visible to the right... This panorama, almost 180 degrees across, was stitched from three images. |
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| A month later (late April), things were greening up. Another afternoon view of Eagle Mountain from the deck. |
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| I got this star for the garage at Creekside Gifts. It's 4 feet tall, but doesn't look that big once it's hanging! |
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| Flame Azalea (Rhododendron calendulaceum) |
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| Columbine (a non-native variety) |
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| Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia) |
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| Alternate-leaf Dogwood (Cornus alternifolia) |
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| Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa) |
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| Poke Milkweed (Asclepias exaltata) |
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| Diana Fritillary (Speyeria diana), on Redring Milkweed (Asclepias variegata). |
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| Indian Pink (Spigelia marilandica) |
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| Our cat was going crazy trying to get this Tussar moth (Antheraea polyphemus) through one of our windows! |
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| Got bitten by a Copperhead in mid June, while finishing a garden project. Three days in the ICU; it looked a lot worse than this before it got better! |
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| Some of Elaine's flowers |
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| Purple Coneflowers (Echinacea sp.) |
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| One batch of the zillion daylilies that bloom here from late May through mid July. |
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| Astlbe |
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| Betony |
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| Blackberries, not ripe yet. We had a real good crop in 2021. |
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| Gladioli |
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| Garden gnome |
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| I wasn't long back from the hospital when we had this HUGE oak fall across the driveway. |
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| First Blackberry Lily (Iris domestica) flower |
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| Spiny Oakworm Moth, (Anisota stigma) |
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| Florida Leaf-footed Bug (Acanthocephala femorata) |
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| Pollinator on Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) |
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| Elaine spotted a Timber Rattler under one of our metal yard sculptures. I used my snake tongs to put it in this barrel and relocated it. It was pretty docile. |
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| Less than a week later, I encountered a much bigger rattler across the road below our house. |
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| Cardinal Flowers (Lobelia cardinalis) The original group that we brought from our old house. |
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| Fall Ladies' Tresses (Spiranthes ovalis var. erostellata ) |
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| American Hog Peanut (Amphicarpaea bracteata) |
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| Large Milkweed Bugs (Oncopeltus fasciatus) |
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| Gentians (Gentiana sp.) |
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| Gentians (Gentiana sp.) |
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| Asiatic Dayflower (Commelina communis) |
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| Coreopsis sp. |
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| Mandivilla |
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| Shrimp Plant (Justicia brandegeeana) |
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| Toad Lily (Tricyrtis hirta) |
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| Sasanqua Camellia |
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| Bottle tree |
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| Evening view from deck, with Christmas wreath lit. |