Shrubbery Discovery

I am ignorant when it comes to proper labels. I don't like labels anyway. I was probably the only parent in the school who protested when my child was labeled gifted.  I didn't even know that insect I took a picture of that was breathing on my window ledge was a katydid. I thank those of you who corrected me, and I will remember. I hope. I also have no concept of birds, fish, trees, flowers. Fish and birds I categorize as big enough to eat and not big enough to eat. Trees lose their leaves or they don't. I can recognize a maple, cottonwood, or an oak. That is pretty much it. I know, it's sad. Flowers come back in the spring or they don't.

A few months ago during the summer, when we actually had some warmth and sunshine here for a brief period of time, my dogs were out in their dog run and very, very interested in a shrub that has been there since before they were born. I had no idea what the interest was, but I took some pictures of them and wrote an entry about it. I have inserted the pictures above again for reference.

They have been showing interest in these shrubs again. Finally I looked out the window and saw why. I think these bushes are called arborvitae. Luckily I had the memory chip for that one so I could look up the picture I needed to show their "flower." I don't know if it is a flower or a nut, but apparently the squirrels eat them. I have seen squirrels with their little heads sticking out of the bushes, sometimes upside down. The dogs are intrigued by this. Personally, this embarrasses me because beagles are supposed to be rabbit dogs.

I grabbed my new camera, which I really don't know how to use yet, and sat on the kitchen sink to try to get pictures. Then I stood on the washing machine to use the window in the laundry room. I almost dropped my new camera behind the washer, oops. I tried getting shots through the window in the door. I told the squirrels to wait while I hunted high and low for the manual for the camera so I could try the zoom. They obliged.

The two squirrel pictures here look more like something out of Blair Witch Project, but they are the best I can do. There were two squirrels, munching away at the shrubs. One was upside down.

I also bothered poor E from emfeasel to help me learn to use the ftp space, but when I finally got brave and tried, it shut down on me and said it wasn't available. I am not going to take that personally.

Maybe I do need to get a job! But when I had one, which was most of my life, I never saw things. I was much too busy.