{"id":22311,"date":"2022-11-06T13:44:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T18:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22311"},"modified":"2022-11-16T10:32:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T15:32:30","slug":"eastern-bluebird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22311","title":{"rendered":"Spider, Flower, and Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Araneus<\/a>

Araneus marmoreus<\/em> (Marbled Orbweaver)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

\"Tricyrtis<\/a>

Tricyrtis<\/em> (Toad Lily)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Sialia<\/a>

Sialia sialis<\/em> (Eastern Bluebird)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

After church today we went to the Agricultural History Farm Park for a little while. It was a beautiful fall day and a great day to be outdoors. We didn’t really feel like taking a long walk, though. We started, as we so often do, by walking around the shade garden next to (and part of) the fenced Master Gardeners demonstration garden. This spider, a marbled orbweaver (Araneus marmoreus<\/em>) was there, sitting in the middle of her web (I don’t actually know this is a female). I know not everyone is enamoured of spiders but you have to admit, this little creature is quite beautiful in its own way.<\/p>\n

For those of you who prefer flowers or birds to spiders, I’m posting two more photos. In the shade garden not far from the spider was the toad lily (Tricyrtis<\/em>) seen in the second photograph. I’m a big fan of anything blooming in November, but I’ve never had much success getting this to grow in our garden. Seeing it here made me want to try once more, because it’s really very lovely.<\/p>\n

We walked around the demonstration garden and I took a few more photographs there. Then Cathy walked over towards the barn and house and I moved the car there. I sat under a tree and took a few photos of birds and the third photo here—an eastern bluebird (Sialia sialis<\/em>)—is the best (I think) of those. Even with my long lens zoomed all the way out I had to crop this photo a bit. I’m hoping to do better but thought I’d share this one now, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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