The Lilac Bush

We had a beautiful purple lilac bush. It smelled so very good when it was blooming in the summer. Two years ago, the frost was late and it killed all the buds and we didn't have any lilacs at all. Then last year the snow was so high that the rabbits got way up the trunk of it and chewed off all the bark, killing it. But sprouts grew up and we wrapped them and we now have a good bush but we got some fence and we need to get it around it so the rabbits don't get it again this year.

Heavy Frost

We had heavy frost the other night so I brought in my hanging baskets of impatients and put them in the garage. It got down to 29 degrees and there was heavy frost on everything. The grass was crispy. Then we decided we better bring in the hummingbird feeder as it is mostly water in the syrup and it would freeze too. We went out to get it and the little hummingbird buzzed our heads while we took it down. Then the next day I put it out again and filled it and by golly, that little guy buzzed my head so close I could hear his wings. A little closer and I think he would have gone through my hair. He sits on the shepard's hook and guards it against the rest of the hummingbirds and won't let them drink. He runs them off. It is so funny and lots of fun to watch.