Friday's Flower

Larkspur

Miracles

this photo was taken last July

Larkspur

"...live as though everything is a miracle." ~ Albert Einstein

Larkspur & Hummingbird

Summertime

We are having fun listening to and watching the hummingbirds.   They are the most amazing little birds and give us much joy during the summer months.  Last week some of the babies must have fledged because all of a sudden one morning, amid immense excitement, we saw a great deal of activity at the feeders, more than we've seen for several weeks.

Larkspur (a favourite flower of the hummingbirds)

Larkspur

remember last July
when the larkspur
were in bloom

Life in the Garden

July's weather could best be described as rainy with intervals of brief sunshine.

Larkspur and Tiger Lilies

Potato plants in the foreground

Potato flowers

Viola and Hecker Strawberries

A bee collecting pollen in the sunshine

Hummingbird sipping nectar from a Maltese Cross flower

Hummingbird Garden

A flash of harmless lightning,
A mist of rainbow dyes,
The burnished sunbeams brightening,
From flower to flower [she] flies.

~ John Banister Tabb (1845-1909)

Maltese Cross,

July's flower, Larkspur,

Wild Columbine, almost spent and gone to seed

Larkspur

Spikes of delicate blue flowers lend stately beauty to the surrounding woods.

Larkspur

flower of attachment, devotion and sincerity

In memory of my mother and paternal grandmother