Thanks for the help! Carol, your plant is gorgeous, but I don't think I have that. Mine definitely climbs vigorously and has small round fruit that are pale in color and not green. Farmerdilla, I know I tossed zukes and cukes, maybe some yellow squash too, into the compost heap b/c I grew them last year. FIL gave us pumpkins and those ended up there too (Heaven help us). Didn't grow cantaloupes but I may have bought one or two so that might be a possibility. I'm trying to post a link to a photo right now. I hope it works! Here is a link that might be useful: Mystery Round Squash-like Veggie

Thanks for all of the suggestions and help identifying these trees. I have only lived here a little over a year and am finding I have .56 acres of "where do I start". Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Per request here are twigs from the first two plants. Ignore the numbers and letters written on the paper. I lost a brain cell somewhere in the process and messed them up. This first photo is from the mature tree: The next two are from a juvenile tree: The smaller twig in this photo is from a juvenile tree. The larger from the mature tree. I think I have two more questions: regarding these cherry/elm trees. The juveniles are popping up on the opposite end of the yard away from the house. Is there any particular reason why I shouldn't let them just grow? WIth the exception of a large flower bed in the middle of the yard and all the trees jammed in at the border of the property my yard is pretty much a large expanse of lawn. It would be nice to have a few more trees! And as far as the poplars go, there is a dirt road that comes up beside one side of my house. I'm thinking these might be a good privacy screen for that side of the yard. How well do they transplant? Thanks so much!

That's "Twister" - a baby screech owl. He looked a lot better after he had a bath.

Great horned owls can attack and take small (very small) dogs. Saw one do it ... it was in the habit of stopping in the parking lot where I worked, perched on a light post. hoping for one more bunny or mouse. We were admiring it when a man came jogging through the industrial park, preceded by a very small dog running off leash about 50 feet in front of him ... end of dog. The owl swooped, snatched, and kept going, with a very dead (limp,not moving) dangling from its talons. If the idiot owner had followed the leash laws, the dog would have been