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Steve And Muffin’s Wildflowers #37.
Hello everyone! Welcome back to another week of wildflowers. Today’s wildflower is the “large-leaved aster”. This is a very common aster found in part shade to full shaded areas and sometimes in clearings or along the edges of wooded areas. This is a fairly early blooming aster, beginning in July and going through to September. The flowers have few petals compared with other asters and are found with white, light lavender or blue flowers. The center disk is yellow at first then turns a reddish brown color as the flower ages. The flower stalks can grow up to 4 feet (120cm) tall. The bottom most leaves are large, up to 8 inches (20cm) long and 6 inches (15cm) wide and heart shaped. As with most asters, bees and butterflies love them. Two years ago they were very abundant along the path to the river where I walk, last year there were none. I have not seen any this year, but I think there may be some plants growing in a couple locations. I have no idea why this has happened, they should bloom every year. In Canada they can be found from Manitoba to the east coast and in the US from the Mississippi River to the east coast, but not including the southern gulf states. I hope you have a wonderful Monday and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2021 Steve McLeod.
Muffin’s Mewsings #10.😹
Hi everyone, Muffin here!😺 I hope all of you are feeling well today. It been hot here, too hot for little me, so I sleep all day and stay awake at night when it cooler. But my human do things backward. He awake in daytime and sleep at night! What a strange thing to do. It much cooler at night, I try to tell him, but he not listen to me. I go to him and say, you should be awake at night, nice a cool, sort of anyway. Better than daytime. He say, “did you lose your toy again?” No, I not lose toy, I talk about cool and hot. “Okay, I’ll look for it,” is what he tell me. I think heat getting to his brain.
So he open drawer of desk to get flashlight and he get down on floor to look under desk. I look too. He say it not under desk. I know that already, it over by chair. But he not listen. So he stand up, except he forget he leave drawer open and he hit head and knock drawer right out of spot and it land on his fingers! Oh, that must hurt. I can tell because of the blood. But he sit leaning against desk and do human purring! That sound so nice, and he do it just for me! I still say it strange though, I purr when I happy, my human purr when he hurt himself. Not see how hurting himself can make him happy. But, he does do it a lot, so maybe it does make him happy. I have such nice human, go to all that trouble to make me happy.
Then one day he cutting up something long and green, he call it a curly cumper, or something like that. I sniff it, not smell good so I not eat. Anyway, my human like curly cumpers a lot but while he cutting it he suddenly throw knife in air and then he do funny dance thing trying to catch knife, which he miss and knife fall to floor and land right between his toes! My human not often go with bare foots, mainly because he hurt foots too much and they turn all kinds of pretty colors. But that knife came so close! But while he doing funny dance thingy he hit edge of plate with eblow and it and all the curly cumper pieces go flying and plate fall and land on my human’s toes! So he sit on kitchen bench and do human purring again. Wow, twice in one week!
He one crazy human, but I love him anyway, always so much fun. Oh, oh! It one of those roaring storms again, the kind with flashing lights and big kabooms. AAAAAAAA,🙀 there great big kaboom now, I gone, bye!!
Muffin, as meowed to her human.
©2021 Steve McLeod.
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