Scents and scents-ibility

I went out a few days ago to pull weeds (or dig them up if recalcitrant) and spotted one of my lavender bushes looking absolutely strong and beautiful! Originally there were three but the other two didn’t make it for some reason, making this one even more appreciated. I have another, older one near the house too. I noticed today that yesterday’s and last night’s rain beat it down but perhaps the sun will revive it. This is Spanish lavender, not the tall plants of Provence, but I appreciate them just as much or maybe more because they’re mine.

Friday flowers…daisies

Once the weather and our health had finally improved, his parents and I took my grandson to the park where his perpetual energy found a better outlet than in a small, two-bedroom apartment. There I discovered signs of spring, one of which were a number of these small daisies in patches throughout the grass. I felt much as Edna did, only substituting “photograph” for “touch.” I fell far short of a hundred, but they certainly made me glad.

“I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

Friday flowers…needs dusting

Friday flowers…bougainvillea

FOTD…2.9.23

Friday flowers…vivid

FOTD 1.26.23

Floating

FOTD

Friday flowers

Friday flowers…fuchsia

Friday flowers…translucent

Friday flowers…rosy and in the pink

There are lots of flowers in this part of California and I see quite a few on my morning walks. Here’s one beauty that caught my attention.

Friday flowers…Gunnison’s Mariposa Lily

There were quite a few of these in Wyoming this year and my PlantNet app identified them as Gunnison’s Mariposa Lily. I remember the name from the Black Canyon of the Gunnison in Colorado and Mariposa Gardens, the funeral home that handled my parents’ arrangements. But you can just call them beautiful.