Oil-Coated Gulf Birds Better Off Dead?

What do you think...
Are these Oil Coated birds better off Dead?

Read the National Geographic articles below.

Oil-Coated Gulf Birds Better Off Dead? via National Geographic Daily News.

The photos are difficult to look at..but i think its important that we all see what is happening to the wildlife...this terrible disaster will affect us all for many many years.


Photos of Birds, Fish, Crabs coated.

In pictures: Oil-affected wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico

I need to keep passing on these links and photos
We need to remember how much this oil spill is affecting everything..

More photos


In pictures: Oil-affected wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Rig survivors: BP ordered shortcut on day of blast - CNN.com

Buy a print to help the Oil Spill

Matt Bango of Matt Bango Photography has come up with the Awesome idea.

You can buy one of his beautiful Bird Prints and 100% of the Proceeds will go toward the Oil Spill.
I know Matt personally and I know all of the money will go to the Oil Spill.
The Bird Prints are beautiful..check out the link to view Matt's Post and to view the Prints.

Proceeds will go to... National Audubon Society, International Bird Rescue Research Center and Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research.


Matt Bango Photography

Each of the birds in Matts photos are at high risk to be impacted by the oil spill.

How You Can Volunteer to Clean Up the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

Found this link via Facebook friends Donna and Kathie...

How You Can Volunteer to Clean Up the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill - Tonic

Robert Redford speaks about the Oil Spill

What have we done?

This is horrible..

I felt I needed to post this so people realize how tragic this is for the wildlife.
What have we done?

Warning..very graphic
Click on the link to see the photos.

Caught in the oil - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Raw Video of Birds Trapped in the Oil..via Mike McDowell

Here is a Link to a blog with info on how you can help.
Mikes Digiscoping blog

How you can help eBird if you are in the area by filling out reports of oiled birds

The Nature Conservancy's involvement with BP and big Oil via
The Drinking Bird blog

Big Bloomers Flower Farm, water plants

Howdee all,

When visiting my Sicksta in North Carolina I always like to visit Big Bloomers Flower Farm. Sicksta works at Big bloomers and she gives me the tour.

I was fascinated by these large planters with water plants in them.

The plants were set in the pots in groupings..each plant in their own pot with gravel on top to weight it down.

If I had a garden.….I would love to have a few pots of these water plants.

The colors were bright

Ok..so…I didn't take notes..and I cant tell you what plants these are… but I am sure you could call Big Bloomers to find out….This type of garden would need to come indoors for the winter.

I thought this was a fabulous way to use water plants…

The flowering plant below was sold in a hanging pot.

Flower within a flower..

           Potted plant..Bee not included

Potted plants with cloud cover..

  We aren't in North Carolina…as most of you know..

I have been busy with gardening and shopping with Mom.

The robins have left the nest.. I found one in a nearby tree waiting to be fed.

I may not be blogging as much this summer…

I am taking a bit of a break from Facebook, twitter and blogging.

So instead of everyday…you may see me a few times a week or less..

Have a Wonderful summer!

Visting Mom and Dad

Howdee all,

We arrived in CT and are now parked in the driveway of the home I grew up in from the age of three.

My parents have been in this home for over 50 years.

My Dad is a keen gardener…one of his passions…

There are nesting Chickadees, Baltimore Orioles and a nest of Robins.

My mother showed me where the Robins chickies are...

Only about three feet off the ground..I was surprised to see the nest that low.

One chick fledged this morning..I expect they will all leave today.

Yesterday we had our annual Family Picnic…Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Sisters and brother.  Our daughter Samarrah came to visit…:)

It was a wonderful day with family that flew by too quickly…And here is my Lovely muther…she will probably be mad I am showing a photo of her..She is over 80 and now the Matriarch of the family, since Grandma passed away.

Doesn't she look awesome!  So…

for the next month we will be busy here with gardening, taking muther shopping, Visiting sickstas and brother…watching the birds that come to the feeders…

Time for family…

And just enjoying Summer in New England..

On the Road again…..

Howdee all,

Its that time again…Moving on…

Going norther to visit more family….

We usually stop in NYC to visit our daughter but the Marina RV park that we stay in is full…..

So we will continue on to CT ..to Mom and Dads driveway.

So..see ya later birdies..Sicksta Dell will leave some seed for you…

If she has enough time…after watering her gardenOr ..maybe… Ghetto Boy will put some seed out for the birdies..

After he is done with his Fish pond meditation.

Ballie enjoyed his daily walks..

Always monitored I might add…

he is a bird watcher..no birds were harmed during his daily walk.

  He just watched them… So there were sat…..our Homey ..nestled in

for a month…

And here is the same spot after we pulled out..Sicksta will fill it up with plants, and benches…until the next time we visit..

Then she moves all the plants, benches, chairs again.. Kali wont have to move when I come in daily to make the bed…

You see, sicksta Dell leaves for work before Ghetto Boy…and Ghetto Boy doesn't know how to make a bed, he just knows how to sleep in it.

So…life will be back to normal for Sicksta, Ghetto Boy and the pups..

and We move on….

To Mom and Dads driveway..

New adventures..

Muther has already informed me that she has nice new brown gardening gloves and knee pads waiting for me…

How Exciting..I can hardly wait! :)

Rain droplets on purple

Howdee all,

Just a very short post

Had very sad news about a Lovely friend..who lost her husband recently.

I haven't been able to put words together and many of us are feeling deep sadness for our friend.

So these raindrops are teardrops…

Sadness for her pain and grief…

Wishing her peace and healing…

Flowers after the rain

Howdee all,

These photos were taken past Monday while on our shopping spree with Sicksta. We went to the Garden supply store and wandered around.

Raindrops from a recent rain were on the leaves and flowers.More, much needed rain predicted for this AM. Possibly some hail.We are hoping for a good rain for Sickstas flowers..We leave here next Thursday.. We wont be stopping in NYC this time…we couldn't get reservations for the weekend at Liberty harbor marina and rv park..

oh well.. So instead, we go directly to CT Looking forward to seeing family in CT….

Though …………

Its always hard to leave my half assed Sicksta , Ghetto boy, the two pups, fish in the pond, birds on the nest, Whip-poor-will, Whip-poor-will, Flying squirrels, Red, white and blue Birds at the feeders, the chorus of tree frogs, swimming pool, lovely garden and all the rest of the creatures here.

But, that's our life…

Parting is always such sweet sorrow.