Spring is in the air and the pecan trees are waking up. I will share some of the pictures I took yesterday.
Pecan flowers.
Wild dew berries or blackberries. They are related. We only just learned about dew berries and probably have both on the farm.
No telling what happened to the missing branches of this magnolia tree; but we think owls may nest in them. We hear hoot owls a few times a year when all is quiet at night.
The next four pictures are of one of the old Live Oaks on the farm. Hubby used to climb it, using that branch as the starting point, when he was growing up on the farm. You can see more wild berries at the bottom. And of course poison ivy. If it was a cash crop, we'd be rich, with all the poison ivy on the farm.
This old oak tree was hit by lightning at one time. You can see half of it seems dead. Hubby keeps saying he wants to cut it down; but Pileated Woodpeckers like old growth trees. Woodpeckers of all kinds have looked for food on it. And when the pasture grass is tall, owls sit on the bare branches at night to hunt. Besides, half of it is still alive! So for now, it stays.
I want to comment on the last two pictures in this group. Never been able to identify it. It is a vine. It has never flowered. It has leaves, and some of the nastiest thorns! If you click on the pictures, you may be able to see them. We have tried to kill it. Hubby got scratched by it when mowing the other day. When we first got here in 2008, it was so long it was growing into the 'corner oak' and it took a bit for me to realize there was a vine 'biting' me and not a mosquito or some other Southern denizen. I keep telling hubby we should train it along the fence line and it would take a bit of trying for anything o get through.
Hubby's climbing oak.
The gate oak
Corner oak.
And today?
One tornado warning passed. A night of rain predicted.
You all have a blessed week!
