It's been exactly seven years since I began this blog. I hope that you have enjoyed reading it as much as I have writing it.
For the past couple of weeks, there's been a new look out there in the garden -- it has both artistic and practical aspects. Let's start with a couple of photos and see if you can detect the new feature(s).
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| Photo taken: December 4, 2018 |
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| Photo taken: December 4, 2018 |
The moss and liverworts have really established themselves and the roses are pruned (I do light pruning) and waiting for a new year. The new feature is the rather basic "kinetic art" -- the CDs swaying in even the slightest of breezes. Each CD is suspended from its own artful stake so that the roses themselves aren't disturbed. There's a very practical reason for their deployment: I'm hoping they'll deter the robins that love digging around in the moss in search of crane fly larvae. Special thanks to imgflip.com/gif-maker for constructing the GIF.
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| Photo taken: December 4, 2018 |
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| CDs swaying in the breeze |
Update of September 25, 2019: The robins prevail; the motion and reflected light didn't bother them at all. The "kinetic art" has been removed so that I'll have easier access to the roses. A revised watering frequency will hopefully make the rose bed less appealing to crane flies, which will reduce the number of larvae, which will make the robins go somewhere else (I hope).
