Chestnuts, Cedar waxwings and Dame's Rocket

The little chestnuts are growing!! Some drop off, as they aren't viable.

I noticed a pair of cedar waxwings in the Horse Chestnut tree. I grabbed a photo of the waxwing, knowing they are flighty, then took out my videocamera. They flew!

 They landed in the backyard later, on a serviceberry bush. This is good for a giggle. Little twerps! 

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At that point I put the zoom lens on. It really didn't help much!  

 

When I was a child, my mom and I would walk the road on Windsor Dr. where our cottage was located. She love the Fireweed plants that grew there. I noticed some of these plants across the highway, and brought some plants home. 

They grew well and Guinivere liked them.

On my Facebook friend's post, she named them Dame's Rocket, stating some people mistakenly call them Phlox. Well isn't it interesting to learn something new at age 65! All these years.

Phlox has 5 petals, this 4. Fireweed grows much taller!