Friday’s Farm Flowers

Here we are at the end of another week, and I decided it’s been a while since I put up some pictures of the flowers blooming around here.  So here we go:

First a couple of Daylilies. . .

We Made It To Manitoba!

We did indeed make it to Denver, then on to Manitoba.  We weren’t impressed with the service of United however.  I tried many different ways to get seat assignments ahead of time, but it just didn’t work.  Not at the United desk in the main terminal, not at the desk at the gate our plane left from.

In fact, the guy manning the desk at the gate didn’t show up until maybe half an hour before the plane was due to leave, and there were at least a couple dozen people that needed help with their ticketing.  It was a mess.

At least the planes left on time, and arrived on time, so although we got to Manitoba later than originally planned, we did get there!

 The temperature is about 30 degrees cooler here!  We’ve been enjoying the milder weather here, and longer days.  And of course, visiting!

Yesterday we just hung out around the house.  There is a big field planted with soybeans behind the house.

On behind the field are more fields that were used for hay.

Today there was a family wedding here, so our 4-year-old granddaughter, Ellie, had her hair done for the first time.  We went to a park to get some pictures of her.  They had some beautiful beds of flowers.

I realize I’m biased, but I think our our little princess outshone the flowers.

Ellie and The Farmer/Grandpa took a break and sat on a bench for a while.

And lastly, with a good lesson for us all. . .

. . . Always take time to stop and smell the flowers!

In The Flower Patch

This time of year there are lots of things in bloom.  There are some pretty Bearded Iris plants in a flowerbed in the front yard.  They were planted before we ever moved here.

In one of the flower beds in front of the house, there are still azaleas blooming.  In the same flowerbed, I have some Cranesbill.  I  have a couple of different varieites.  One is a pale pink with darker pink stamens.

Geranium Biokovo (Cranesbill)

The flowers are so delicate, it kind of gets lost as a single specimen. I think it would be much prettier if there were masses of the same plant with flowers blooming all at once.

I like purple flowers and I think pink and purple look good together. so nearby is some Blue Sage that is dark purple.

Salvia nemorosa ‘Caradonna’

There are also several Coral Bell plants to provide more pink color.

Coral Bells (Heuchera sanguinea)

There are even some daylilies starting to bloom now.

Daylily ‘Stella d’Oro’

I like the combination of roses with clematis growing through them. I took this picture one evening.

White Iceberg Rose with Clematis

We’ve got patches of flowers all over the place these days!