Toad lickers and now this! 😯

Qa-Quite bbbeautiful evvven to us st-ra-ra-ra-raight peo-pulls 😛

Ah, I see you've already had some 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆

They are bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbeaaaaaauuuuttttttiiiiifffffffffuuuuuuuuulllllllllllll 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯

Popppppppiiiiieeeees will make them sleep!

Ha ha, you turkeys...

Seriously nice photos, Barb 😀

Thanks folks.
Not many flowers around here so it's quite a diversion when something sends up a shock of color.

When will you get wildflowers there?
My pastures are full of wild Rudbeckia and Coreopsis right now.
Wife plans to spray with 2,4-D soon. I may have to take a shovel out there and rescue some.
--Erik

Those flowers are spectacular Barb, the detail is amazing. How long do the flowers last for?

Bill

Bill, poppies last for almost a week BUT as soon as they open we get a light rain overnight (every year it seems) that mars the delicate petals.
And damn if it didn't happen again this year. 😐

Erik, suddenly wildflowers are everywhere in the fields but it is later this year since May was so cold and rainy.
The wild lupines are just starting.
Didn't have my camera with me when I went to an appointment this morning.

And the much-hated purple loosestrife (one of the most beautiful plants I've ever seen) is coming up in ditches.
For those who don't know why it's hated, loosestrife invades low/wetlands, destroying them by outperforming all other native (and beneficial) wetland plants.
One day the nurseries will have to stop SELLING it! 😯

Barb

Lupines are pretty. Take your camera long some day.
Purple loosestrife is sold around here occasionally. I don't see it growing wild (like I sometimes see Kudzo doing) but may be a matter of time. Or climate. --Erik