Steve`s Country
For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
Daily Pics #14.
Good morning everyone! Happy Monday to you all on this last Monday of November! Did you remember to smile this morning? Why not do it right now? For us it really hasn’t been a bad winter so far, it has been quite mild actually. Most of the snow we had melted yesterday, except for areas that are quite sheltered from the sun. The temp hit 4C (39F) which is fantastic for us this time of the year. There is just a bit of thin ice forming in bays along the shore of our lake. That’s not really too odd though, it can take a long time for this big lake to freeze. But we’ll talk about that another time. Right now it’s time for our pictures…
Here we have an even darker red hollyhock than the last one, so I couldn’t resist showing it to you. These are real country garden flowers.
I don’t know the name of these beautiful blue and white flowers. Just as I clicked the picture, a female hummingbird landed on the plant, which is why she is not if focus. But she flew again before I had a chance to get her picture sitting there on the plant. A little update on this flower, it’s the bicolor monkshood, thank you so much Simon for your help!
There we have it for today folks, thank you once again for stopping by to take a look. I want you all to know I appreciate all of you that take some of your time to join Muffin and I here each day. Happy Monday to you all and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
© 2019 Steve McLeod.
Daily Pics #13.
Good morning everyone on this mild Sunday morning in late November! 😃 Not too many winters that I can say that, though it does happen on occasion. Sometimes even December can be a very mild month. Sometimes. Rarely. But it has happened before, maybe it will happen again. Okay, I’m dreaming. It’s nice to dream sometimes though. Especially when winter becomes cold. But that’s for another post. But mild winter weather always brings a smile along with it.🙂😺 But no matter what the weather we should wear a smile with us all day long. A smile always brings sunshine into our lives and for those around us. Yes, I have said it before, and probably will say it again.😁🌞Now on to some sunny pics for today…
And we start with a beautiful orange daylily above. Daylilies are one of my favorite flowers, next to roses.
And here we have a very beautiful light pink peony. They are huge flowers and do require a little help to stand up straight, but a very hardy flower, great for our climate.
I showed the above flower a few days ago, but didn’t know the name. I finally identified it today as the blue gilia (gilia rigidula). I added the extra name due to the fact there are other blue gilia also. It’s a native wildflower of the southwest US and Mexico. How it got to be up here is rather odd, and they likely won’t survive. I got to enjoy it one season anyway.
I hope you have enjoyed these flowers today, have a Happy Sunday and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
© 2019 Steve McLeod.
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