I got myself up extra early this morning and headed out to get some photos. There are a few fields around here that get the most beautiful morning light.
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{Tuesdays at Chatting at the Sky are all about taking note of, and being thankful for all the small things that sometimes go unnoticed. This weekend I took notice of all the beautiful flowers happening outside my door.}
We’ve had an unusually wet and rainy spring & early summer in North Carolina. Normally at this time of year, the grass is quickly starting to resemble hay, and flowers are struggling to remain healthy. A drought, and subsequent water bans the last few years made me question if any of my perennials would actually survive.
I was sure I killed this clematis. I was a little overzealous in my pruning earlier this spring. The rest of the clematis in the neighborhood have already bloomed. In think instead of killing it, I just delayed its maturity a bit. It’s already reached the top of the metal trellis.
These are the same type of daylily that we had growing up in Massachusetts. The stems are very tall–almost three feet. I scoured the nurseries down here for quite a while before finally finding these. Daylilies do really well here, and are quite popular. But it’s harder to find these larger ones. It’s mostly smaller varieties that I find.
This is an onion blossom. I absolutely love any type of onion/chive flowers. I have some garlic chives that bloom with a similar, but smaller, flower. This is my absolute favorite.
Some zucchini blossoms. I need to do a search for some recipes for stuffed blossoms. It seems a shame to wait until the veggie develops. I’m remembering when I’ve seen stuffed blossoms prepared on tv, that it usually involves some ricotta cheese. Yum…
Lots of herbs survive the winter here without any trouble. I have rosemary, oregano and sage that are a few years old in the garden. Even so, I plant a new parsley plant each year and let the previous year’s plant flower. Butterflies apparently love to lay their eggs in parsley. I can vouch for that, because the boys have brought the caterpillars into school so that the class can enjoy seeing it change to a butterfly.
These are just so cheerful. What’s blooming in your area?
I ran across this contest and the I Heart Faces blog and immediately thought of the photo below. It captures their personalities so well. There’s something about the missing teeth that makes me chuckle too.
I am submitting this photo into the www.iheartfaces.com Blurb Book photo contest. I am granting I ♥ Faces permission to use my photo in a printed version of a book for commercial use and possibly advertising of a photo book on both the Blurb and I ♥ Faces web sites.
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