Dear John, X-Air, and WeatherCat dwellers in nature,
Man, these are some great wildlife photos!
Glad you liked these photos. There are a number of
"WeatherCatters" who are also gifted with a camera. If you haven't checked out this thread on sky photos around weather instruments you might enjoy it as well:
http://athena.trixology.com/index.php?topic=1842.0;topicseenIf you can feel free to contribute your own photos of your weather instruments.
What may work for most of you is this...Our landscape plants were continually getting haircuts until I finally tried "Liquid Fence" (available Amazon, Lowe's, HD, local nurseries etc).
Thanks for the suggestion but since we have been living with deer for essentially all my life, we have simply changed our landscaping to things that aren't
"deerlicious." At the same time, we have already changed to more drought resistant plants. Anyone who lived through the California drought of 1976-77 has an altered view about everything and saves water automatically. That's why I'm extremely bitter about the way California is handling the current drought. The same governor who was in charge in 1976-77 is asking for the same sacrifices when the state has done almost nothing to prepare for this drought. At the same time, those of us who never stopped saving water are really being asked to reduce consumption to the point that lots of plants in our already
"low water use" yard would die. On the other hand, people who never made any effort to save water in the first place aren't expected to save any more than those who have been saving water all along. It is really a program that punishes the old-timers who have led the way on water savings.
Oh well, . . . . Edouard