daylilies

After the rains

Blooming today after several days of off-and-on rain in Northeast Georgia…

“A flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world; it just blooms.” Matshona Dhliwayo Linked to Cee’s Flower of the Day.

They’re all along the roadsides now and in our garden… “So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees.”…

After the Deluge (3): We can get out now, no more rain, and recovering my sanity

The broken fence still needs to be repaired, and there’s a sad, bare spot where my beautiful Japanese Maple tree was, but things are slowly getting back to normal. Sunday morning I got out with a shovel and tried to fill in some of the worst places on the road in front of our house. …

Apricot or Peach?

Daylilies “To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt to fully understand.” (Henry T. Tuckerman) Linked to Cee’s Flower of the Day.