Life in our Wildscape

Another frillitary child! This one's in the front yard. It's eaten ALL the leaves on this passionflower vine.

Portrait of that hungry Gulf fritillary caterpillar.

The dalea's blooming! We planted it on my birthday last March.

Ants visiting wild petunias.

'Hot Lips' salvia bloom with a fly passing by.

Mexican bush sage bloom

Fly dining on a cowpen daisy.....

Fly not dining on cowpen daisy any more...

While I was outside reading, several titmice, chickadees and wrens started fussing in the elbow bush. I figured "snake" but couldn't find one in the shrubbery. James came out later and spotted it–a young rat snake. Cool!