Friday flower No. 11
This is a wildflower called spiderwort. I only know that because Lesleyest is basically my internet flower dictionary.
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Friday Flower No. 10
The lilies my mom transplanted for me finally bloomed! My camera can’t seem to handle bright red! I should figure out why! And fix it!
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Friday Flower No. 9
This here’s a blanket flower. I wish I had more money because if I had more money, I’d be using these things as ground cover.
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Little things
My yard — hell, my entire neighborhood — smells like honeysuckle right now. The entirety of the western fence in my back yard is draped with the stuff. I snuck two licks of nectar the other day and thought about all those times as a kid I’d been out in a pasture somewhere and felt like I’d found some exotic delicacy when I came upon a clump of sweet honeysuckle blooms.
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Friday flower No. 8 BONUS!
In celebration of eight straight weeks of beauty, I present my hot-ass pink dianthus.
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Friday flower No. 8
Yet another beautiful thing in my yard that I had absolutely nothing to do with. I have always been intimidated by roses, so how cool is it to know that if I just continue not killing this one, it will reappear every spring?
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My Midas mushroom
I think it was Megan who, several weeks ago, said that my photos of the yard remind her of some magical wonderland (I’m paraphrasing, unless that’s her direct quote). Which is so funny to me because I totally shoot macros of blooms for that specific effect (and to pretend like the areas of the yard that are flower-free don’t exist). But then today I was out transferring some snapdragons to the front bed and I…
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Just dropping in
I had just gotten off the phone with my mom (“So far, so good!” I’d told her) when I saw (well, heard, first) this limb come down with a smack to the roof and a thud on the ground. The impact shook every piece of glass in my house. It fell at a fortunate angle; it could have easily busted through my back bedroom windows. When the rain let up, I went outside to see…
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Almost made it to May
Got my first batch of mosquito bites of the season. Two on the arm, two on the leg. Keepin’ it symmetrical.
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