This beautiful fellow is a Piliated Woodpecker, which is apparently rare compared to the other types in this area. He sat at the base of what used to be our cherry tree and cleaned it out on Saturday morning, giving me enough time to put the long lens on and snap a couple of pictures when he looked up. He’s bigger than he looks—I’d say about the size of a crow. * * * The tomatoes in the greenhouse are going gangbusters. I’d say they’ve grown about 5 times their size since I bought them, and they’re all putting out flowers, which I’ve been dutifully trying to fertilize every day. I sure do hope we get some good fruit on each one. I have to repair a bunch of holes in the plastic this coming weekend, because the replacement cover I bought seven years ago did not last as long as the stuff I installed in 2005.
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