Between the heavy eaters of the hummers and the wind storm the other night my feeder was empty. I got it refilled last night and complained that no bird was eating at it. Immediately a humming birrd showed up. Our neighbor's feeder is just across the way and they do just travel back and forth to each feeder. My sugar water should be the freshest.
Looking down from the deck the sunflowers look a lot beat up from the sixty miles an hour wind. I had to place two steel post inside of the cluster and pull them all up and in to a formation. I am hoping the jute twine will keep them in place as new storms show up tonight.
It does just spread. The phlox came from the old place and I have now moved it to the back against the fence. We had phlox down on the farm when I was a kid. It grew wild among the water grass that was all in front of the grapevine rows that ran the length of the garden. Previous owners had planted both grapes and phlox and it was there when we bought the farm in 1953. I am thinking I need to move the iris out of that area as it seems to be dominating everything.
My zinnias are just now starting to set buds and some are blooming. I will have lots of times to photo graph then all when the get into full bloom.
The hostas are showing off with these blooms. Each variety has its own kind of blooms and colors are different. I spent time in the front garden clearing creeping phlox away from the hostas that I have planted there. I want them to do well so I have been really watching over them.
I will finish off today with some red colors. My smaller red truck sits in the living room bringing back memories of my Uncle Donald's truck that he drove all of the time. I have a larger one of this truck as my wife wanted me to buy the bigger one so I could look at it while I did a painting of it. The painting is still in the imaginative state waiting for just the right time to sit down and draw. I wanted it to be a big painting of a big red truck.
Watch for bad weather tonight. Typical when you live in middle America. Thanks for stopping by today.
1 comment:
Hope the sunflowers straighten out after those winds! Hope you find time to paint some day:)
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