There are clouds of buttercups along all the fields around here right now, but these two just begged for a close-up.
I was sitting on my back porch and heard this dove almost directly over my head.
My friend Judy gave me these Japanese Iris a few years ago – they are tough buggers to dig up and divide and of course we chose a blistering hot and humid day to try it. We are moving them as soon as they finish blooming, but this time, I will get Larry to dig them for me.
This is one of my new favorite plants. It is a Ninebark “Summer Wine” and I can’t recommend it highly enough. It has beautiful marroon leaves, is engulfed in little white flower clusters for 2 weeks every June and makes a great backdrop for the daylilies that fill the bed where it lives.
The sky as a storm was moving out one evening last week.
Great photo from a green thumb!!
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I have doves who also visit me every day.
I should photograph them I guess but I usually just sit there and listen to them.
If that were me, that dove would have pooped right on my head.
I loved the buttercup photo. It was just lovely.
Glad to know the name for Summer Wine. I have some in my flower bed but never knew the name!!
Your photos are always so neat! I really like the storm clouds! We have a posse of doves which invades our bird feeder – that is right,no ground feeding for THESE doves- they like to scare the other birds away so they can get all the seed!
I love those Japanese Irises. They are very exotic looking compared to my…um…Irises. Would love to see them in full bloom. Please!
What lovely photography! You really have a gift. I miss flowers…not much grows after April in Phoenix. And cactus flowers don’t count. :)
What beautiful photos. I live in California and I have never heard of “Ninebark Summer Wine”, so I guess it won’t grow here. It is a beautiful plant, though.
I think I’ll take my trusty little Kodak out to my garden and take a few pictures. They certainly won’t come out like yours.
I remember buttercups from our field next to the house when I was growing up. I would pick them and bring them to my neighbor lady who would give me a cookie. Thanks for jump starting the memories.
Wow! Gorgeous photos!!! I love them! Do you have a special lens for those flower shots?
Pretty, pretty, pretty! When I was a kid in the deep south, my mom always told me that buttercups were something which is actually known as a Missouri primrose. They’re pink! But your buttercups are dainty.