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The camera came back
on June 24, so on the 25th I went outside and checked it out. These are
Walter's lilacs, which have been in bloom for a couple of weeks and are
now beginning go go. They still smell heavenly. |
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The wild roses are
out, at last! These grow up into the big juniper in the foreground of
the first picture. The bees love them, and so do I. It amazes me that
such a little, simple flower can put out such an amazing amount of
scent. |
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Here is another rose
flower, straight on. I can smell them just looking at the picture. |
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My wildflower
experiment came to nothing, apparently, but around the edges of my
"landscaped" space, there are a lot of these. It is a big,
coarse plant called hound's tongue, from it's long leaves. The flowers
shade from this bluey-purple to dull reddish-purple, sometimes on the
same plant. The thing under the flower is a seed head, which is a very
interesting thing. By the way, the macro settings seem to be working
perfectly. When I enlarged this, I could see the hairs on the bracts. |
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Oh, yes. Here is
Buster's preferred daytime bed. It is the box full of the pictures I
haven't hung yet. I threw a towel over it when I left last fall to keep
the sun out, and added a fleece throw this spring. I don't know how he
can be comfortable, and sometimes he sleeps all curled up with his head
below his feet, but who am I to argue with a cat? |
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