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Month: May 2012

Green peppers and melons

Green peppers and melons

Never have had much luck with green peppers.  They look beautiful, but taste a bit bitter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Lamkin melon grows well here.  Like the Crimson Sweet watermelon, it is a bit smaller than the cantelope, but delicious and well adapted to the climate here.

Hummingbird hawk-moth

Hummingbird hawk-moth

This little guy scared me when I first saw it.  It is the biggest moth that I have seen in my life.  Not that there are not bigger ones.  I once saw a fly in Kansas that was huuuuge!

Anyway, here he is: