Pics From Around Our Yard

I was happy to see a butterfly enjoying the Echinacea flowers:





A few days, later the bees gathered on the Echinacea flowers:



Dinner time for the lizard:



We use the spare tire cover that came with the Jeep as a grill cover (it fits perfectly on our portable Weber Baby Q). We unintentionally left it off for awhile and later found that a bird had built a nest in it and laid eggs. We soon saw chicks in the nest but I failed to get a picture of them.



The nest was built in the cover as it was draped over the railing just like this:



This crazy root was found while digging a place for the stairs outside our house by the new room:



Lovely flowers randomly sprout up in our yard:

March:



April:



July (these 2 kinds--Coreopsis and Echinacea--were actually planted by family):







Banana trees that the neighbors gave us:







The palm leaves are slowly growing on the Sabal palm tree:

April:



May:



June:



July:



August:





The grass plugs are growing and spreading:



We had sod planted in front of the house in May:



We had a good hard rain last week that filled up the creek and muddied the water for a bit (as seen from our main balcony):