Blooming Friday

It is another September Blooming Friday... hosted by the very gracious Katarina ... to see other gardens in bloom go to Roses and Stuff. Here are a few blooms with a couple of birds ... one I think is a red-eyed vireo and the other I just do not know. Some of these photos were taken just after sunrise and others later, when the clinging, glistening rain and dew dripped away. The Tree hydrangea... paniculata 'Grandiflora' also known as Pee Gee... is still moving into deeper pink and quite a show for some time now. Sedum 'Autumn Joy' is scattered about the garden and is a great source of food for the wild honey bees and butterflies. Asters and Phlox are having their day as the Himalayan Balsam is going by and popping seeds the garden over. Little chipmunks seem to find them tasty, judging from their puffy cheeks ... I see them scurrying around behind the little studio gathering the fallen seeds. Cotinus or Smoke bush is lovely just after sunrise, when the blades of sun light up the dewy airy blossoms. Asparagus too... deserves a spot here... dressed in shimmering silky dew. Hope you have a lovely weekend!

Blooming Friday Berries and Blossoms

The steamy hot hazy days... seen in the last three photos above... have passed and the temperatures are delicious and cool. You really need to click on the images to see them better. There are many berries and a few blooms here and there in the gardens... to see other blooms the world over visit lovely plantswoman Katarina's... 'Roses and Stuff'. Enjoy your weekend!

Walking, Working, Birding Up and Down the South Slope Early Day Into Evening Light

Spring rushed into intense green unfurling free fall fading blooms beneath a fire of heat nearly thirty degrees warmer than an April day were three days... plants shot up three to four inches in twenty four hours including asparagus which I harvested this evening... only a few to be true but ready they were weeks ahead of schedule. A dragon fly flew by ... not long after at dusk my first bat sighting both arrivals early... peepers too. Thankful the wave fell back into cool with north winds blowing south western heat I am not sure where. Back into Spring we go... a wood fire as it should be here on this next to the last evening of April. Flowers exhale a sigh of relief ... time for me to deal with peonies standing knee high. There is so much going on ... so much to write but too tired from all the demands of the photo essays and the land. I will catch up in time... meanwhile hope you enjoy the story my photos convey. These photos were taken in the morning and late afternoon light. There are some repeats that reveal the difference in lighting... for your pleasure.