Messin With Mother Nature

Hi Everybody,
You should never mess with Mother Nature. Everybody should know that, but peeps have been messin around for years and now she's good and mad about it. Even we dogs can see that things aren't quite right anymore. This year we didn't get a Spring. It went right from Winter to Summer and that's just not right.

The Summer we got wasn't much fun. It was really hot and dry. We dogs that carry around a fur coat all the time appreciate cooler temps. When it's 90 every day, we lie around in the air conditioning when we should be out running and digging and doing doggie things. Then in early June we started seeing these things in the yard. Wooly worms aren't supposed to be out and about in early June. We saw big ones and little ones and curled up ones. Guess he's hot too.

Mom and I took a walk around the yard yesterday and it looks like Mother Nature is really confused. Here's the crabapple tree doing what it's supposed to do, send out lot's of little apples. That's good.

Here's our Nandina. It's sending out sprays of berries, which is good.....

.......but it's also flowering, which it's supposed to do in the Spring. Uh oh!

 Dad harvested our Moringa trees because they need warm temperatures and probably won't live thru our Winter. Dad says he's going to try to save them but we just don't know. Dad dries the leaves and Mom cooks them with rice for us to eat on our dinner. Dad also makes tea with them. 

Our holly looks nice and shiny, but there are no berries.

Dad's rose bush is blooming.

Mom and I found these buds in the rock garden. She thinks they're violets which shouldn't bud till Spring.

 This tree is sending out cones. That's good.

But The Weigela is flowering, which is not good.

And look at the Clematis!

The Pyracantha has berries. Good.

There are wild strawberries growing in the yard. What!

The  next door neighbor's Maple tree is dressed for Fall.

 Ours is just starting to change at the very top.

 We found some purple mushrooms in the rock garden.  This years we've found lots of mushrooms and we found yellow ones and red ones and now purple ones.

Inside the house where Mom tries to keep the weather more normal, we can tell that Winter is coming because the Christmas Cacti are both in bloom.

Mom doesn't like to give up on a plant till there's no hope left and this year she was rewarded by the Poinsettias from last Christmas. They're both doing great, though only one has red bracts right now.

We hope that all the peeps around the world and especially in Washington DC wake up and start treating Mother Nature better. We need to help the plants get back on track and start doing things at the right time so we can all enjoy our Earth.
Your pal, Fudge