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?

squash is in!

 the squash is in!

I've been spending time scrubbing it and slicing it and preserving it and frying it LOL

these two grew together!

Frying up our first big skillet of fried squash this year:

It was SO GOOD!

We also have blueberries:

and onions!

and our crepe myrtle has burst into beautiful pink blooms!

hope you're having a great week so far! ITS HOT HERE, LOL

honeysuckle anniversary

The honeysuckle bloomed out and wow, did it ever smell delicious!
 

We celebrated our wedding anniversary.

going outside to make pictures of my anniversary roses

enjoying my roses!

My anniversary present, a pearl necklace. The blue beads are lapis lazuli

I got the identical one with green beads for Christmas from Mr. Front Porch, so now I have the two I wanted, I just love them!

pearls with green aventurine

Mr. Front Porch got interested in growing herbs this spring, so for our anniversary I got him gardening and herb items, like these herb cutting scissors and an herb gardening book.

And fun markers!

and these cute little fancy cutting scissors:

We had a yummy steak supper for our anniversary with baked taters.

Along with loving the old Rifleman series, we've been watching Bonanza all spring. Another really OLD SHOW,  (started 1959) and such good episodes! 

Loving the adventures of Hoss, Ben Cartwright,  Adam, and Little Joe, who of course, was Michael Landon.

Since we're enjoying the old Westerns, we got a combined anniversary present of the next 3 and 4 Seasons of Bonanza, Season One of The Big Valley, and one of our favorite old TV mini series North and South. (1985)

this should keep us plenty set for evening tv viewing all  during the hot summer!

things are growing here:

tiny baby sunflower

getting bigger and bigger!

baby moonflower

planted the carrots, awaiting sprouts

baby taters up

This is my FOURTH TRY at hollyhocks! I love hollyhocks and have not been able to even get any to come up here YET. 

I am not giving up, lol.

These seeds soaked about 12 hours I think I read to do.

Not 100% sure, but I'm hopeful these are baby hollyhocks!I'm so excited anything even came up, LOL. All the hollyhocks I've had in the past grow the first year, establishing themselves, roots, etc. then they don't bloom til the second year.

little baby morning glories

Hope your week is going great. It's very very HOT HERE, and pretty much a summer thunderstorm moves through each evening, great for all these things we have growing. But it sure leaves things so steamy and humid.

Hope you are staying cool!