Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Weather Watching #4 Winter 2013/14, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Thanks, coleup---winter surely has reared her head....but i am an optimist
....(sometimes......:o)

Because I still have to put away all my patio furniture & cushions, I BELIEVE that--
in the coming week(s) there will still be a sunny, warm day so I can do this.
I also BELIEVE that there will be a less windy day so I can suck up all the
leaves that continue to blow into every corner of my yard.
They are NOT mine!!! I cleaned mine up a while ago. Doing their thing in black
trash bags. Two years from now--they will be rich earth.

For those of you who remember, I once needed an ID on these HUGE, Maple-like
leaves that my front lawn keeps collecting. They were ID'd as from the London Plane tree.
They hide! Floating around like big parachutes...Under my bushes and in my beds...
I have quite the collection of them by now. I have still to find the tree they come from.
It has to be, somewhere, behind the houses across the street from me.

Today, It is cold--but a gorgeous, sunny day! My indoor plants are loving all the light!
As long as the sun shines bright, I can, actually, venture out in just my sweat shirt
for a few minutes.

Put out a BIG plastic saucer as a bird bath in my usual concrete BB's spot.
Put a brick in the center--as a squirrel jumping on the edge would topple it.

Off work today--catching up with "housey" stuff--like laundry. Need to vacuum--seriously!
Doing the "avoidance behavior" again......Oh, well! :o/

Gita

My plants by the big LR window--loving the sun today
My collected, dried up London Plane Tree's leaves.