Monday, July 16, 2012

Grasshoppers

We have experienced a plague of Biblical proportions.

Locusts. Grasshoppers.

Literally by the millions.

They covered every surface. Every wall.

Each step sent a cloud of them into flight.

They flew at your face & landed in your hair (shudder).


And they ate.

Their sheer destructive force was awe inspiring.

You could go to sleep with a fully leafed bush or tree outside & wake up to twigs.

When I left to go back East they had eaten my entire garden, the landscaping on the East side of the house & every flower on the place.

But we still had trees, rose bushes. artichokes & landscaping on the West side of the house.

I was gone 4 days.

Not only did they eat the trees, rosebushes, artichokes & landscaping but they ate our lawn.


It is just a dried out, shriveled brown mess. :P

Now that the food sources have declined by such a large percentage they have started to move on to the neighbors.

Now we only have 1000's instead of millions.

Everything outside is a dried out, yellow skeleton of what it should be.

Keep in mind, when you look at these pictures, 2 months ago all of these were lush, green, fully leafed, blooming pretty plants.

Not anymore.


Used to be a nectarine tree.


Used to be a mandarin tree.


Was my herb garden.


Remember the artichokes as tall as my girl? Mmmm hmmm. That's it.


Used to be a lush grape vine full of fruit.


 Was my lawn. :P


Were pretty rosebushes.


Used to be Day Lillys ~ just starting to flower when the hoppers came.
(See the sad dead munched on trees in the background?)



Trees.


 One of the 20 tomato plants we put in ~ the hoppers  sure appreciated that :(


More sad little trees.

So there you have the world's saddest Farm Tour of dead pathetic sticks, twigs, & straw.

And, in case you 're wondering, NO,  I'm not spending a whole lot of time outside this year.

:(

Blessings.


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