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| Leucanthemum |
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| Echinacea (‘Julia’) |
A couple of new blooms in the new flowerbed. I think my new favorite is the orange cone flower. I just picked it up at the Garden Center I work at. Can’t wait till it fills out!
Category Archives: summer
Last Summer’s Monarch
Getting a little cabin fever, so I’m going to share one of last summers pictures.
(Come on Spring!)
Everything’s Coming Up Flowers
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| Annabell Hydrangea ~ Hydrangea arborescens ‘Annabelle’ |
Summer’s in full swing now and so is the garden…
So here’s a few more blooms for you to enjoy.
Happy Summer!
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| Marigolds (Tagetes sp.) |
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| False Sunflower, Heliopsis |
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| Spider Web Hens and Chicks (Sempervivum arachnoideu) go here for post with this plant |
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| Munstead Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) |
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| Blanket Flower, Gaillardia ‘Arizona Sun’ |
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| Joe Pye Weed, Eupatorium purpureum ~ pre-bloom |
Signal
Retired signal from the Illinois Railway Museum, Union IL.
Last Evening in September
Good Bye Summer…. sigh
Sunday Driving
This Sunday our drive took us north for a visit with a good friend.
The day was bright and beautiful.
Sunny blue sky dotted with lazy summer clouds.
Not too hot and not too cool.
Just a perfect day.
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Central Illinios is typically a flat place, full of corn and soybeans
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With a few rolling hills here and there, just to keep it interesting.
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We drove most of the way on 251, a nice stretch of highway that used to be a main north and south route before interstate 39 was built.
Anyway, besides the endless sea of corn and beans,
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There is also the wind farms
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dotting the landscape here and there
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We didn’t stop and stand under any this time. It was enough to just look at them today
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…And a Rainbow at the End
To celebrate the first day of summer, we had muggy weather, strong storms,
a deluge of rain, lighting and even a tornado south east of us…
At the end of it, we got a rainbow…
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…and a beautiful sunset!
Happy first day of spring!
( at the the time of this post, I don’t know how bad the tornado was )
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Another hike through Matthiessen
Sometimes it’s hard to believe that a place such as this exsists in the middle of flat prarrie and corn fields.
headed down (the ultimate workout!)
shallow water
spanning the canyon
crack in the wall
vines
(it was so humid that the lens on my camera fogged up)
Matthiessen State Park, Utica, IL
Matthiessen
colors of summer
I just thought of something…
green and blue are my favorite colors…
throw a little white into the blue and
sprinkle little dots of color onto the green
and you have instant summer!
Before the Storm
Watching a storm build from the bleachers behind Ottawa Township High School
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Lil's Garden Tour 