Showing posts with label sunflowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sunflowers. Show all posts

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Wildflowers (and fruits) #22 + Fauna

A quiet and sunny morning walk  (after severe thunderstorms yesterday).

A couple of the wildflowers are noted for the first time this year. The others are tough enough to have kept blooming over a summer of drought and high heat and deserve a reprise.



taking note of blue, who has appeared from the side of the house


rabbit brush / Chrysothamnus nauseosus (and it does stink!)

Rocky Mountain Beeplant or stinking clover / Cleome serruluta

Blue in autumn grasses chewing on (instead of retrieving) a stick

sunflowers

goldenrod

milkweed

scrub oak

and yes, it's Indian Summer

Monday, July 16, 2012

BROWSING BY



A couple of visitors this morning. They liked the sunflowers. The netting around the Douglas Fir is meant specifically for them—a couple of months from now they'll be looking for something to rub the velvet off their antlers.