New Year’s Resolutions

The Helleborus are just starting to bloom, and this one is my favorite. It's Mrs. Betty Ranicar.

The other day I went to check on the Spanish bluebells. They’re planted along the drive, down where it crosses the creek. (My neighbor will certainly check that direction before peeing in the woods again.)

On my way back to the house I noticed this and thought, “That hole at the top looks interesting. I bet a bird made it.”

I went to investigate. As I approached, a woodpecker flew out and perched in a tree a few feet away. She hid on the far side of the trunk, but kept peaking around and looking at me. She moves her head in an odd jerking style, quickly looking right, holding the position a moment, then snapping her head back left again. I watched for awhile, and left thinking, “Thank goodness I never cleaned this up. She wouldn’t have a home.”

I came back the next day with my camera. I know the picture is fuzzy, but I think it’s a downy woodpecker.
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These logs will stay where they are. I've learned my leason.

A related thing happened about a week ago. I was collecting wood for the campfire. After removing all the logs, I noticed a baby lizard at the bottom of the empty wheelbarrow. How terribly sad it would have been if the log had been near the fire pit and I had just  tossed it on, not realizing he was sleeping just below the bark.

The moral of these two stories is also one of my new year’s resolutions: leave some natural areas for Mother Nature. My new garden plan has a large area designated as ‘wild’. The only thing I will do in that area is remove foreign invasives such as Japanese honeysuckle, privet and nandina. 

By the way, February is the time to prune trees and shrubs, and  cut back grasses. It’s a little early, but soon I’m going to start my tomato and pepper seeds under the grow lights.