diamonds in the weeds

The rainy dreary days continue here, but at least it has cooled off a little making the humidity less wearisome. It means I can bake and cook and warm the house up just enough to make it comfortable.

Outside the plants are- ha,ha- soaking it up

I am terrible with names of plants but I just love this exotic creature that sits in a chair I found roadside

 

A beautifully veined leaf dappled with raindrops of this same plant

 

And another leaf, a pink amongst the purple

 

It's flowers are tiny lovely pinks

 

Another leaf from another plant that has caught many glassy raindrops on its broad surface.

You can see the bare spot where I moved a blade of grass away

 

Tiny hard little peaches growing so well on our new peach tree

 

A close-up of a baby peach reveals its mottling and fuzz

 

Such an exquisite little thing up close

 

A Harelson Baby Apple up close

These apples will be marvelous if the deer don't get them first.

Wally has taken to hanging aluminum pie shells in the garden now that he has found hoof tracks

and nibbled tops off herbs and such

 

The green blossoms of a hydrangea before it fills out and goes white

 

The giant hydrangea bush that grows right in the middle of our property, draped and bowed from the rain

 

The last of the little bush roses that grow in our hedge

 

a Bean flower, humble little thing that it is

 

and zucchini sprouts taking off with wings that would fly if they weren't rooted

 

Mallow that grows like a weed but is too beautiful to treat as such

I was first introduced to Mallow when I found it growing all over the lawn in Port Carling

and began my love affair for it then, rambunctious, tough and beautiful wild thing that it is

 

A diamond caught in a leaf

 

Til next time, let us always find diamonds in the weeds.