4th of july

 

Merry merry 4th of July, y'all!

This time of summer I pull out my red/white/blue hair bows! LOL

Tracie and Amybelle send happy summer wishes!

so does Tansy!

Even with the HEAT, love this time of summer! Our sunflowers have finally bloomed!

I just love studying how each big flower blooms out

And we have rainbows of four 'o clocks in bloom

And it's Pepper time!

I've been busy processing and freezing peppers

Awwwww, they smell SO GOOD!

Enjoying blue summer skies:

watching birds:

are they talking to each other? LOL

Good things grown:

and watching things grow. Below are our baby watermelons:

the farmer's fields of corn are big and tall now:

And some have even put up their first hay:

and a friend brought us a loaf of delicious homemade bread! YUM

above, our crepe myrtle in full bloom. 

Merry merry 4th of July!

Stay cool!

Have a fun safe holiday!

wildflowers

"The Earth laughs in flowers..."

........Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have really enjoyed looking at and photographing the wildflowers this spring

delicate purple flowers of toadflax and spiderwort have finished for the spring

a few splashes of yellow remain in country ditches

Big white fluffy flowers in ditches and along fence posts

"blossom by blossom the spring begins...."

.....Algernon Charles Swinburne

dainty yellow flowers in our fields

Big bunches of this are scattered throughout the country ditches:

I have always called this "Queen Anne's Lace". I have heard it called wild carrot too.

But I've recently read there is a look alike to Queen Anne's Lace that is toxic.

One way to tell the difference is the funny old  saying "the Queen has hairy legs!" Real Queen Anne's lace plants have hairy looking stems and the toxic ones are quite smooth and also have purple splotches.

The ones I photographed today have very smooth stalks, so since I don't know for sure, I didn't touch them.

This could also totally be some other type of weed and not even Queen Anne's Lace.

and bright beautiful splashes of orange wild glads:

What is blooming your way?