Last week a few trees started blooming in a mass of white blooms. There's one on Spears Ranch Rd and one behind the front gate mailbox. They may be Mexican Plums? I took a picture and lost it already.
This morning as we exited the from gate, we saw a flock of Cedar Waxwings finishing off the last few china berries on two trees just behind the fence - I wish I had my camera! A few years ago in Cedar park, we had a waxwing flock feasting on our Nandina berries. Some friends from Dallas spent the night and in the morning their car was covered in Nandina berry bird poop. It was hilarious. We washed it off so it would not damage the paint.
- Mark Young
- Programmer, tree lover, hard worker and a collector of nature images to share with people who enjoy wildlife.
Sky rains white, falls as tree blossoms
Going Somewhere, Slowly, Maybe
Oxalis. A native that grows from a small bulb (Thanks Doug)
Lots of these after it rained. The "bat" shadow is my camera. Also called Violet woodsorrel.
Native Yarrow
This looks like fern, and was very unexpectedly growing by BD's driveway It's only a few inches tall. I only happened to notice it when I hung my coat on a tree while walking down the road. Even BD didn't know it was there! Doug pointed out that it's native yarrow. I updated the picture now that it survived all winter (down to the low 20's) and yet it stayed green the whole time and has now bloomed. Later I found a whole group of two foot tall blooming specimans across the road and down a lot. Today I saw two more "bunches" of it on Spears Ranch. It's amazing what gros and you never see unless you look!
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