Nature's Garden

[StoneHeartFarm]

Re: Nature\'s Garden

JimI

Here's another shot. The flower is some kind of clover. I have names for a lot of the stuff growing out there, but it's usually something like "that fuzzy purple flower with the clover leaves". /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif. About the only clover type plant I can distinguish is wood sorrel, and I eat that one. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

SHF

 

[StoneHeartFarm]

Re: Nature\'s Garden

Here's the OTHER clover stuff that's growing out there. If you look close, you can see one of the field hands working on it. Just below picture center.

SHF

 

[jinman]

Re: Nature\'s Garden

Looks like two variations of the same plant. I'll check my books tomorrow when I go back to my "farm." But hey! Maybe GlueGuy knows what they are. He's pretty good at this ID kind of stuff./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

JimI

 

[jinman]

Re: Nature\'s Garden

Well, I can't ID either of the plants. They look like some kind of scurfy pea or vetch. They don't seem to have the traditional clover leaf like the wood sorrel. I've attached a photo of a Violet Wood Sorrel I photographed a couple of months ago. It's leaves really have the clover shape.

JimI

 

[StoneHeartFarm]

Re: Nature\'s Garden

JimI,

I've never seen one with that kind of flower. Almost reminds me of the pictures of cactus flowers I've seen. Our wood sorrel has a tiny yellow flower. The plant itself never gets very big.

It looks like it's growing in grey clay. How big are those rocks? (I'm trying to get an idea of plant size). Wow, I though MY ground was rocky! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif I've got one good sized area of red clay, lots of fine sand, some black clay along the old stream bed and bunches of nice topsoil in the other places (at the bottom of the hill where everthing has washed for the last 100 years.)

SHF

 

[jinman]

Re: Nature\'s Garden

Yes, there is also the yellow variety, but I do not have a photo of it./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif The photo was taken along the side of my crushed rock road, so that is the reason it looks so rocky. I do have lots of rocky soil (mostly limestone) and a layer of red clay. Below that is about 10 ft of pure white sand. My tractor has already hauled plenty of that. (Notice how I managed to get back onto a tractor discussion./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif)

JimI

 

[StoneHeartFarm]

Re: Nature\'s Garden

Gotta climb off that seat and smell the daisies once in awhile. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

SHF

 

[StoneHeartFarm]

Re: Nature\'s Garden

Hey, JimI,

Just had another thought. Didn't you post an aerial photo of your lake? Looked for it and couldn't find it. Just wondered if you dug it or just found it? /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

SHF

 

[jinman]

Re: Nature\'s Garden

Gosh no! I didn't "dig" the lake. It was/is a soil conservation lake (many were built in TX) with its dam built in 1941. Subsequently, the land around the lake and the lake proper (minus the dam) was sold to private individuals. I am one of five people who have lake frontage and the dam is maintained by the county commisioner much like our county roads are maintained (not often and mostly when we complain). I don't have much land underwater, but two of my neighbors have a combined total of about 12 acres. The total acreage of the lake is about 20 acres. I approximate my underwater to be about two acres. I also have two ponds which total about 1-1/2 acres. Hope this is a better description of "my" lake.

JimI

 

[skent]

Re: Nature\'s Garden

Last year I started having trouble with my AE1. Been great all these years but ended up with Olympus D460. It's only 1.3 Mpixel, but the convience of home processing (with a Cannon 6000) and picture storage (can burn over 1200 images on a CD ROM) make it great. My Oldest daughter (15) is learning photography and can take many many pic's with the digital, review them for scene and content on the display of the Olympus, then use her camera (Pentax) for the final (film) image. Anything you mess up on can be simply deleted and room made for another try.

Next to my Bota, best thing I ever bought.

Last year was selling for around 400 on ecost.com. I think the D460 was replaced with the D490 (over 2 Mpixel) and is now selling for about the same. Uses standard AA batteries (I use rechargable - keep a spare set on hand - the display - when used - will eatem' in less than an hour) and uses the standard memory card.

Steve