Wildflowers, rain

[eve_prime]

Yesterday I finally went to look at the wildflowers in the woods near the school, the place where I had that photography project a few years ago. J was about to go for a walk with DG, and it was the last good chance to do that for a while since we’re about to get lots of rain, and I abruptly realized that meant the last chance for the current wildflowers, too, so off I went. They were about a month early! I guess all the warm weather triggered their growth. The irises were basically done, and the fawn lilies were fading, but the shooting stars were doing exceptionally well, and some had even moved to the west side of the trail. I was glad not to miss the hound’s tongue, because I do love blue flowers. The camas flowers were busy in the grass beyond the woods, next to the playground. I didn’t see any cat’s ears – maybe they’re on the normal schedule. It started to sprinkle as I was driving home, but J and DG did their walk anyway and got rather wet.

I hoped that would take care of the pollen for today, but no – it was sunny much of the day today, and I was so stuffy that my sleep was cut short. But then we had a dramatic thunderstorm in the late afternoon, and finally some proper rain. I watched the Friday movie with J - The Last Starfighter - then took a nap, then went to spend some time with Momo, as his “parents” have now gone to Philadelphia for the weekend. He was glad to see me, and there was much purring.

Comments

[kaishin108]

So glad you did get to see some flowers before the rains. Our tulips are done but the Iris haven't started their thing yet. We had some hard rain come down last night and more tomorrow.

[eve_prime]

Our few tulips are still happily blooming, unless yesterday's rain knocked them out. On Easter, the Bunny hid a reddish egg right inside one of the tulip blooms!