Crape Myrtle

 

 

Way later than we expect it to each year, the crape myrtle finally leafs out and grows like crazy.  Here it is, leafing and growing.

 

Then, when we’ve totally giving up on it blooming, maybe in July, the flowers pop out.  Nothing to show here.  No flowers popping out.  It’s still just June.

 

There has been a mockingbird in the crape myrtle though.  A pair in fact.

 

 

 

We watched them build a nest.  No photos, the nest was pretty hard to see.

 

It got easier to see when they started feeding the baby that hatched out though.  Got a couple photos of a baby face getting fed.

 

 

The baby fledged and is gone now.  We saw it one morning in the latticework on the back fence complaining and getting fed.  I guess that’s all it took for it to be off on its own.