Moonflower with raindrops

Flowers ,Trees & Plants


Pink Crape Myrtle

09 Jul 2013 7 6 578
Like pink fondant icing !

White Crape Myrtle

09 Jul 2013 10 21 701
The blooms finally broke today. I prefer the white one to the pink. The white has an almost etherial delicacy to it

White Crape Myrtle with Bee

09 Jul 2013 3 6 667
I love the etherial delicacy of the white crape myrtle better than the pink ones.

First Acacia blooms

11 Jul 2013 8 10 640
I love these trees. The flowers are so impossibly delicate and the bees and butterflies love the nectar The sea anemone of the arid dry plains !

First Acacia blooms

11 Jul 2013 13 21 723
The sea anemone of the arid dry plains ! I love these trees. The flowers are so impossibly delicate and the bees and butterflies love the nectar Note added at top left hand side

Raindrops on Redbud leaf

14 Jul 2013 6 3 557
We had some precious rain today.. rare and much needed. The Scent Of Water

Raindrops on Acacia leaves

14 Jul 2013 15 10 695
We had some precious rain today.. rare and much needed. The Scent Of Water

Sunshine Sunflower

18 Jul 2013 19 25 807
This beauty is actually only 3 inches across. 2 quotes from Comments... this from Monica "... Fibonacci numbers in nature...fascinating sequences that allow the maximum number of seeds in the smallest amount of space. Fibonacci sequences show up everywhere...." and my reply "...... Beloved One is an engineer and frustrated astro phys. He had commented some time back about how Fibonacci numbers came around in nature... Its absolutely fascinating !...."

Ironweed rare here as it usually isnt wet enough !

Ironweed rare here as it usually isnt wet enough !

26 Jul 2013 10 9 583
Note at Top left

Tiny Bracket Fungus The largest is approx 3/4 inc…

26 Jul 2013 17 14 687
Two Notes Top left

Tiny Bracket Fungus The largest is aprox three qua…

Tiny Bracket Fungus The largest is aprox three qua…

Mondo Grass in flower

08 Aug 2013 9 10 640
From Wiki ..... Ophiopogon japonicus (Mondo grass, Fountain plant, monkey grass; Japanese: リュウノヒゲ ryu-no-hige ("dragon's beard") or ジャノヒゲ ja-no-hige ("snake's beard") In traditional Chinese medicine Ophiopogon japonicus tuber, known as mai men dong (Chinese: 麥門冬), is the cardinal herb for yin deficiency. According to the Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, the herb is sweet, slightly bitter and slightly cold, enters the heart, lung and stomach channels and nourishes the yin of the stomach, spleen, heart and lungs and clears heat and quiets irritability.

Morning dew on Mushroom

19 Aug 2013 6 9 638
Not the best focus.. but I loved how it looked Second photo in Note at Top Left

Morning dew on Mushroom

Honeysuckle in August !

20 Aug 2013 4 14 573
Any "normal" you are lucky if there is Honeysuckle in April.... this wet Summer.. the first really in 30 years... this is the 2nd flowering... in AUGUST !!

Moonflower in the morning and the grasshopper !

25 Aug 2013 13 21 696
You can run... but you can't hide ! See Note (hover Note) that will explain that !

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