The EllGab Garden

[Rikki Gins]

                                                    The Saratoga Sun, May 08, 1924.

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The first two tulips have blossomed.  (Click on the photos for larger images.)

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More tulips have popped open.

[JUAN]

Volunteer red peas and sweet potatoes are coming up.  Food with no work.

[Rikki Gins]

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I had some success at photographing the auroras, or Northern Lights, here at the EllGab Garden the other night.  Of course, I had to look north and there couldn't be a worse direction to look, due to all the light pollution, tree branches and power lines.  But I took a stab at it anyway and took some pictures.  I couldn't see anything but dark sky while taking the pics, but the camera on my phone was more sensitive and it managed to pick up traces of the auroras. 

[KSM]

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I had some success at photographing the auroras, or Northern Lights, here at the EllGab Garden the other night.  Of course, I had to look north and there couldn't be a worse direction to look, due to all the light pollution, tree branches and power lines.  But I took a stab at it anyway and took some pictures.  I couldn't see anything but dark sky while taking the pics, but the camera on my phone was more sensitive and it managed to pick up traces of the auroras.

OOOoohhh Yeah! Gorgeous. been seeing some of the skies from the town I lived in up in BC. It's astonishing. Nice stuff, Rikki!

[Rikki Gins]

OOOoohhh Yeah! Gorgeous. been seeing some of the skies from the town I lived in up in BC. It's astonishing. Nice stuff, Rikki!

Thanks, @KSM, very nice of you to say.  We don't normally get auroras down here at the Pacific Northwest.  In fact never during all the years I've lived here.

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Some springtime color at EllGab Garden West.

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More EllGab Garden Clouds.

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The Achillea, fernleaf yarrow blooms have returned for yet another year.  I'll never understand why it wouldn't flower for a good five or six years after placing it in that metal tub, but it matters not because it blooms every springtime, now.

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Cloud Picture of the Day.

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Introducing my old pal, Jeremy Blue Jay, who has watched over EllGab Garden West for a number of years now.  He is rewarded with three salt free, in-shell peanuts a day, which he zealously buries in the ground.  I read somewhere that blue jays can remember a thousand or so places that they have buried future sources of food.  Jeremy can also swoop down from a tree branch and catch a peanut, if I manage to throw it high enough into the air.

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Our old friends from the U.S. Navy did some more EllGab Garden flyovers.

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This rose was illuminated by the rays of a setting sun.

[Smokin Hot Bob]

It was a beautiful day.

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Bonus points recognizing the other flora.