Our pumpkins are growing several inches per day now and they are blooming with such a vibrant orange color. I love the shape of this blossom and the ants love the taste apparently.
Look at that vine go! I can't even remember what kind of pumpkins we planted but we are enjoying the vines and blossoms in the meantime.
The sunflowers are all popping open, a few each day. This one has so much pollen that it is spilling out onto the adjacent leaf. Look at it all.
Here is our wildflower of the week, chicory. Melissa at In the Sparrow's Nest shared her chicory last week and it reminded me to go out and take a photo of ours.
Our neighbor has a whole yard full of Queen Anne's Lace and I went over early this morning to take a few photos. So pretty and delicate.
Here is a photo of what his yard looks like......pity he will soon come and mow it all down because he thinks it is "weeds". I will enjoy it while it lasts.
That is just a quick look at what is going on in the garden this morning. We are going to start our nature journal page challenge this week and get a few done.
Don't forget to come to the blog and look in the sidebar for the Outdoor Hour Photo of the Week! Also if you are interested in a Summer Nature Walk notebooking page, you can find it here on my daughter's blog.
I also am going to try to post this week about how to identify insects using the internet and a field guide if you are interested.
Barb-Harmony Art Mom
7 comments:
Lovely sunflower!
Your insect post sounds great, we like whatsthatbug.com for ease of remembering the addy if nothing else, LOL!
I loved the pictures especially the sunflower. I also enjoy Melissa's blog. Thanks for all the great information!
Julie
I love the Queen Anne's Lace. I have blue eyed grass growing all over the sides of my property. I love it but DH can't wait to cut it down. I think the woman who lived here before me, must have planted it because it is neat rows along the outside of the propert like that. She didn't thik of it as a weed and neither do I. It is beautiful.
I had great sunflowers this year too. They just scream Summer to me with thier cheerful way of following the Sun all day.
Hi Barb! The picture of your sunflower looks as if it belongs on a post card. And I, too, love Queen Anne's Lace. Do you happen to know how long it takes for Morning Glories to bloom? Mine have vined nicely, but no buds are to be found.
Jenn
Love your photos! It's so neat to see that you have some of the same wildflowers as we have here. I just took some pictures of our Queen Anne's Lace today.
Funny you should mention about how he thinks the Queen Anne's Lace is weeds, because a lot of our wildflower observation and photos have come from empty lots here in our subdivision next to us. Well, they came and cut a lot of them down a few weeks ago :( because some were complaining about the "weeds". Actually made me cry! Oh, if they could only see. The good news is, since then bunches have already started to return!
Blessings,
Melissa
www.homeschoolblogger.com/melissal89
What a great picture of the sunflower. It's almost as if it's spilling over with joy! :-)
Your sunflower looks like my sunflower!
This is my first time with that shade,,, I always stick with yellow.
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