August 1

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Phlox, in the beautiful garden.  There's a lot going on, with phlox.....

Tightly furled buds, opening buds, tiny buds so small they don't show purple yet, wide open flowers, and scent, too....

Driving home.  Some people have bumper stickers on their cars.  Some people have polar bears.

Front legs do not bend this way.  And polar bears do not have camel humps.  Otherwise, very nice.  (see the spider legs on the house, upper right corner?  I never noticed that when I took the pic....)

I didn't pay attention to construction techniques.  I have no idea how all of this fibrous stuff is attached.  I do think it has a metallic armature......

Grocery store miniature rose bush.

Excellent clouds over the high-school grounds.

Later.  Walking.  Daylilies, with corn.  Yes, actual corn plants.

Corn plants have two sets of flowers.  Female flowers, that will turn into the ears of corn, nestled into the stem/leaf junctions.  This bundle of fiber is called "silk", and is part of the female flower.

The male flowers are at the top of the plant, and, in the aggregate, are called "tassels."  They drop pollen on the female flowers below.  Or on some other corn plant's female flowers.

Daylily in the corn leaves.

Uh oh.  Another one of those long-legged green grasshoppers.  At least -- the legs look the same as the one we saw the other day.  And it's got the same long skinny antennae.  But the body shape is totally different.  The other was long and skinny, and this one is much shorter and fatter.  With that ... thing ... on the end.  Sexual dimorphism?  Or something......

We've had a lot of looks at daylilies in this yard.  Here we can see a lot of them all at once.  This one in the front is the biggest, in terms of "wingspan"......  I bet what we see here is over 6" tall, and that's not counting the parts of the petals that are curled back out of view.

In the same yard.  Look how dark the spent flowers are......  I like the contrast of that color with the orange.

Same yard, another big daylily.   The buds remind me of baleine whales (just as the buds of amaryllis do).

This is being a very rabbitous year.  Some years we have tons of rabbits; some years almost none.  This is the former.

This particular bun let me get quite close.  Within 20'.  I assured it that I meant it no harm, but that I was walking right by where it was sitting.  It decided to hop on down the hill.

My better half's tomatoes are doing well, for being in buckets rather than in the ground in excellent soil.  They smell good and taste even better.

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