{"id":299,"date":"2008-07-02T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=299"},"modified":"2008-07-02T06:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T11:10:00","slug":"wednesday-not-exactly-wordless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, not exactly wordless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember a couple weeks ago, when I was <a href=\"http:\/\/dlynz.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/open-letter-to-robins.html\">ranting<\/a> at the robins?  I showed this nest which had some very tiny baby robins.  This photo was taken a week and a half later.  Sadly, when I went to check on their progress about a week after that, the nest was empty.  I&#8217;d like to think that they were big enough to have been fledged from the nest, but I think instead it is a case of the less pretty side of nature and something got them.<a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SGrqqP0qw_I\/AAAAAAAAB44\/2NMu39ui6FM\/s1600-h\/baby_robins02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SGrqqP0qw_I\/AAAAAAAAB44\/2NMu39ui6FM\/baby_robins02.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218241129784984562\" \/><\/a>A Daybreaker Gazania &#8211; one of my all time favorite container flowers.<a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SGrng6nsFHI\/AAAAAAAAB4Q\/fPH4ia3Tgvg\/s1600-h\/gazania07_01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SGrng6nsFHI\/AAAAAAAAB4Q\/fPH4ia3Tgvg\/gazania07_01.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218237670939694194\" \/><\/a>Still not enough flowers in the garden to get any good natural looking shots of the hummingbirds, but I can get lots of these.  I was standing less than 3 feet away when I took this.  A very cool feeling!<a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SGrnhPtR-gI\/AAAAAAAAB4Y\/TI1zHZXvcmM\/s1600-h\/hummer07_30.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SGrnhPtR-gI\/AAAAAAAAB4Y\/TI1zHZXvcmM\/hummer07_30.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218237676600293890\" \/><\/a>A bud on the &#8220;jackamanii&#8221; clematis out front.  I love the texture.<a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SGrnhBFqfCI\/AAAAAAAAB4g\/RSQVJZ9XxMQ\/s1600-h\/jackamanii_bud.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SGrnhBFqfCI\/AAAAAAAAB4g\/RSQVJZ9XxMQ\/jackamanii_bud.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218237672676031522\" \/><\/a>This little guy is a Colorado Potato Beetle.  Pretty but very bad to have around your garden!  See those little dots on his shell?  It looks like he was stitched together, doesn&#8217;t it?<a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SGrnhCdtz8I\/AAAAAAAAB4o\/jle9v3tFB74\/s1600-h\/potato_beetle.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SGrnhCdtz8I\/AAAAAAAAB4o\/jle9v3tFB74\/potato_beetle.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218237673045348290\" \/><\/a>The first few open daisy blooms.<a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SGrwyxTOI6I\/AAAAAAAAB5A\/x3irXQQMJ20\/s1600-h\/dasies_06_27.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SGrwyxTOI6I\/AAAAAAAAB5A\/x3irXQQMJ20\/dasies_06_27.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218247873280222114\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember a couple weeks ago, when I was ranting at the robins? I showed this nest which had some very tiny baby robins. This photo was taken a week and a half later. 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