June showers bring? June flowers? Well maybe a few more days of green hillsides in the Methow. Also good conditions for garden photos.
Walking or dancing Egyptian top-setting onions
Native columbine
Pretty flowering catnip mint
Poppy bud
Raspberry flowers
Ken’s bees have been busy in the berry patch.
Hop vine
Our neighbors have a fabulous garden and I imagine that part of that is due to their chickens. These stocky egg layers spend much time scratching and eating bugs and making fertilizer within the protected confines of the garden. When I visited yesterday, the big red rooster was ruling the roost, so to speak, chasing away hens that got too close to where he was foraging and making sure others were producing fertile eggs. Mostly the hens ignored him and went about their business – eating, pooping and laying eggs.
Life’s adventures are conspiring to keep me from going hiking, paddling or having other fun times away from home. What to do? Yesterday I went outside for some errand or another and I noticed that the rising fog was leaving tiny droplets on all the flowers and foliage. I rushed upstairs to get my macro lens to capture a few images before the moment dried up and went away. Flowers still blooming include sweet peas, nasturtiams, parsley, coneflower (well barely still holding on to some color), asters and some sunflowers. Temperatures tonight are forecast into the twenties and tomorrow night, the LOW twenties. Maybe even the teens. Good thing I got a few more images of summer before it all goes away.
Perennial aster, one thing the deer don’t seem to eat at all
Coneflower or echinacea, something that deer seldom even taste
Leeks, inside the garden fence
Nasturtiam, also inside the fence
Parsley umbel growing in a planter on the deck
Oh yeah, these sunflowers are inside the fence. deer love them.
Sweet peas. I like sweet peas. These grow on the garden fence. Fortunately, they grow tall and the deer only get some of them.
Yup, I really like sweet peas.
Yesterday’s all day rain was unusual for our climate. After two months of dry weather it is nice to have however the adjustment to dampness and gray skies can be difficult. It was a good day to get lots of work done inside. Later in the day there were a few shower breaks and I got outside and made some images of rain drops in the garden.
With good weather finally happening, the garden is really coming to life with new growth and flowers everywhere. Evening light, just before sunset gives all the foliage and blooms a glow you don’t see during the day and I find it irrisistable. One day this week the constant breeze or gusty winds finally quit and I was able to photograph the sights around my house.
This seems like a lot of images for a blog post. There were many more they didn’t make the cut!
My Everyday Photos 