August

August is here.  The grass starts to look tired.  Every corner crevice needs to be swept at least once per week to prevent a webby effect, and it’s going from warm to nice to warm to nice.

This week was gorgeous.  This weekend was a bit warm – high 80s and humid.  Tomorrow is supposed to be 10°F cooler.

The dayliles are still beautiful and the hostas are in varying stages of bloom.  The sedum look very full.  Soon they will start to pink up.

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What is going on here?

Tonight I realized I never took a picture of the 18 ‘Marque Moon’ daylilies that bloomed all at once.  I enjoyed them tremendously.  I was thrilled that the whole wave had blooms today for the first time.  I even “rescued” one from not reaching it’s full potential because it was wedged between two stems.  I “freed” it – lol and it started to open.  Yeay!  But I didn’t take pictures.  So out I went, after sunset, to see if I could capture it.  Instead I scared a robin off its perch for the night.  Then I really felt bad.

Maybe tomorrow.

This is the second time I’ve done this in four days, and I did it up north a month ago.  I get caught up in the beauty, the whole big picture, the experience of being in the middle of it, and the last thing on my mind is to take a picture.  It might be because a picture just can’t capture something that big.

The bees are really enjoying the hosta flowers, the butterflies and hummingbirds are flittering through. It is just all so beautiful.  A camera can’t catch it all.  I just have to experience it.

Well, here’s some I have captured over the last week.  The blue mouse ears are done blooming, as are the gladiolas.  But all of the daylilies are blooming at once now and it is … incredible.

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