Sunflowers and hot sunshine go hand in hand. This variety is not the mammoth one but it does have some good blooms.
Last afternoon I had a perfect view of the sun shinning behind a large cloud. By the time I got a camera the clouds had moved away from the perfect shot. There were some storms yesterday in the northern part of the state but thiese clouds did nothing for us.
Us locals call it the ditch lily but it is called a field lily or wild lily. You can see it growing along country road ditches where farmsteads are long gone. My wife's family farm had it growing a mile down the road from where its origin was at their place. I harvested this from a ditch across of Xenia Cemetery at an old mining town, Xenia, Iowa. The coal mine in the area was called Xenia. All that is left there is the cemetery and a couple of farm homes. Our neighbor lady was recently buried in that cemetery The ditch lilies grew all along the ravel road where one could see the trees up the way that once surrounded a farm house. It took the ditch lily a few years to get established but this season I will have lots of blooms where it is planted under my stairs to the deck.
I moved from the old place a couple of different colors of this star gazer lily. It has a different kind of bud compared to the regale lily. I saw the stem with the buds and couldn't remember what it was until it just started blooming. They have a strong wonderful fragrance. The other lily is tan.
I worked out in the back yard this morning and saw my bunny. Can you see the little guy in this photo.
This is what he looks like when I zoom it in. He is the reason I had to put up screens to keep it away from the glad foliage. He was eating away at them, keeping things short. So now that the screens are up the leaves are growing back. This is the same bunny that got into my tomato plants and he could not get out of the screened area. I had to open a corner of it to let him out. He apparently had crawled, sqeezed under one of the frames and then couldn't find the hole to get out.
I did finally get my bookstore shot to come up in Google photos. I don't know why it took a day to get it there. My wife is better today from her eye surgery. I waited at the bookstore yesterday while the hours passed by. I got a call when she was in recovery and I then returned to be with her. When she is all better we are going to hit this place on a Monday morning as it is peacefully quiet. A few people meet for coffee but in the most part people come and go to pick up books that they had ordered.
We are up to 88 degrees F. today. I guess I am getting use to it as it didn't seem to be so bad when I went to get the mail. Thanks for stopping by today.
