By SKEETER
I need rain in my Georgia Gardens! It is so dry that I am seeing turtles moving around like never before. I assume they are looking for water and food. When I spot one such as this Box Turtle, I dig some worms from the compost pile and feed the critter. They suck them up like spaghetti!
I am dragging the hose around like a mad woman trying to keep my pretty blooms happy. Here is video clip of a Red Belly Woodpecker enjoying the sprinkle from the hose. 
I have never seen the Red Belly's at our birdbath or seeking water such as this year. On the Suet Pole, yes but not seeking water. Our area is now in Drought 2 stage. So we really do need RAIN PLEASE, In the Garden...
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Posted by Dawn
The North East is experimenting with several days of rain right now, in fact, it appears as though we will be having more rain this week, making it three weeks in a row. I can say, one or two overcast days brought me out to the veggie garden for the much needed thinning and weeding but not anything else, so with much ado about the weather, I've captured some flowers with my camera and decided I would share them, they are some of the blooms we've had over the last month.
Wild oats.
Sensation lilac.
Lady slipper and bunch berry.
A holly berry, close-up.
I thought this one was cute.
and finally, a flower from my snowball bush although it looks more like a flake.
Lily of the valley, one of my favorite scents!
I'm not sure what this tree is, it gets loaded with these trailing flowers and it has a wonderful gray smooth bark. Any ideas would be appreciated, until then myself and my daughter call it the "kitty cat tail tree."
A lovely white lilac with an insect we first thought was a baby hummingbird because of it's long beak, no shown in the picture, but alas! Baby hummingbirds don't have antennae.
Goat's rue.
a close-up of goat's rue.
Pink geranium growing by my mailbox.
Pink peony, my poor pictures get dark from here on in, I was desperate to get some shots and took them on the only overcast, clear day we had recently.
Yellow lilies with purple iris.
Thanks to a heavy coating of horse manure, my iris are gorgeous this year. I know some call these Japanese iris but we have always referred to them as blue flag iris, they are native to this area and are found in swampy, low lands.
More yellow lilies.
