I have been waiting for my lilacs to bloom out for a picture for my SG pal Geri. The weather has not been very cooperative and they have been slow to burst forth. These are right outside our bedroom window and the fragrance is heavenly!
We are in our annual contest with the Great Blue Herons. They seem to think that those lovely gold fish in our pond are put there for them to dine on until the Colorado River clears up from spring run offs to fish closer to home. We have had one particularly persistant bird that managed to grab one of my 2 pound ladies out of the pond the other evening. Okay that does it! Don went and got a net designed to put over fruit trees and we netted the pond. Looks a bit odd with large white blocks of stryofoam with pvc pipe stuck out of it to keep the net off the surface so the fish don't get caught up in it, but if it saves my lovlies, what the hey. These birds are beautiful and very large. If they weren't fishing they could hang out here all they wanted to. However they are really starting to tick me off! We are trying to get a good picture of them so that I can make a scrapbook page about them. They are a bit camera shy!
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Oh my goodness, those birds kill me! We just have the blue jays to worry about here!!! I can almost smell those lilacs.
HeeHee! The herons wouldn't get close enough to you to do any harm, buggers prefer fish! Haven't had any problems with them getting in the pond since we netted it. We have blue jays in the high country, but down here in the valley we don't see them.
Oh wow! Those are just beeeeautiful! I wonder if they grow in the hot and humid south??? Do you ever cut them and use them for table decoration? I bet the fragrance just fills the entire house.
I like the net idea... the nerve of those birds! ! !
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