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1 Caught (and released) this 6lb 3oz female (24 inches) off her nest in about 3 ft of water. Pretty sure she was guarding a bed as I hooked a nice one that pulled under the boat and got off. Tied on a sharper new hook and fished on down the shoreline then came back in about 20 minutes and caught her at the same spot for good that time. They were hitting white flukes this week.	2 Now this is more typical of the bass I caught this week. Well, some smaller than 14" of course. Still fun to catch these Spotted Bass as they fight almost like a smallmouth.	3 Looking North up Potapo Creek from the swimming beach area. Had quite a bit of rain. Backed out of fishing on a couple of really windy days. This lake is fishable in the wind but keeps you busy on the trolling motor to hold a shoreline.	4 A good number of rocky points and shoreline to fish plus old standing dead trees way up the creeks.
5 Just some blackberry blooms I thought were pretty. Notice the thorns to protect those future berrys. Well, maybe for some other reason as birds and animals transport the seeds.	6 Why do roses have thorns? This one had some drops left over from previous night's rain.	7 My most prolific Peony just before they all popped open. (20 April 16)	8 Like this. Wish they bloomed all summer. (24 April 16)
9 OK, I fudged a bit and looped some plastic tape around them when last night's rain weighed them over. (26 April 16)	10 See the two babies (chicks) on each hen? Stuffy book calls them "offsets". Mama blooms after 3 years or so then dies leaving just whatever chicks have rooted. (so I read in stuffy book).	11 First Rose of the season and it was this bush that had last one in December '15.	12 This is one of Virginia's climbing rose bush. They are nice and Orange when they first open then fade with age. Don't we all?
13 According to my computer we bought this bush in 2007 and it was named "Tahitian Gold" and it cost $9.97. It is in a half barrel container. Well, not a full size barrel.	14 This is a Don Juan rose. Got one because it was Mom's favorite rose bush. It is a climbing rose but has always been trimmed as did not have room to let it grow free.	15 Giant Lantana blooms. (not really, just normal size with long lens). I sprayed Sevin AFTER these bug bites.	16 Not so giant version of same plant.
17 OK, these are in the neighborhood. Believe they are "Tropicana" roses.	18 Again, these Peony(ies?) are a couple blocks over in the neighborhood. Don't see 4 colors in a row very often. Believe the two end ones are different color.	19 These are "floribunda" roses I think and they will just bloom this one time. Well, maybe a few scattered later in the year but very pretty now.	20 Closer view of the pinky bush in previous pic.
21 (Back in our yard) OK, just a few more right arrow keys and we will have seen all the Peony pictures. All the ones on south side of white fence are past their prime. This one was about the last.	22 Now this one was taken on the 4th of May. It is on South side of white fence. Those have been behind because of more shade. However, they don't appear to have nearly as many blooms but larger stems.	23 I have forgotten the name of this tiny blooms perennial but it keeps coming back.	24 I made a mistake thinking this was on the Don Juan red rose bush. Not.. It is an old Tropicana bush that is on its last legs. Has maybe two blooms at a time. Yes, it looked orange because it was orange.
25 Have one Japanese Peony that has different type bloom. Sort of single / double and more pink than the others.	26 This is the first of the Day Lilies. It is in a big heavy concrete type pot and the warmer soil brought it out first this year.	27 The last of the Peonies. This one is largest of the year and it is on North side of fence in back yard. Fewer blooms but larger stems and bigger blooms. About 2 weeks later than the ones facing to South. What yard flower has larger blooms? Dahlia and Hydrangea and Mums are large too. I don't think anything grows so fast at these after winter goes away. They came up about 1st of April and were blooming by 20th of May.	28 Yeah, same flower different angle.
29 Evidently these two bushes are different varieties as the leaves and stems of plant on the right are huskier. Cecil (90 years old) across the street let me have that one which he brought from his parents farm yard where they had been growing untended for about 40 years. It never bloomed here in the neighborhood as it was strangled with Bermuda grass.	30 OK that is the last ONE.