Happy Independence Day

 

The storm hit a little after one p.m.  Brother Brent had been out on Jormungandr and just made it back home.  I hadn't realized the storm was that imminent  and the wash that was drying on the clothes line got a rinse thanks to Mother Nature.  After the storm I went out to check on things.  Storm must have included straight line winds.   Many of the clothes that had been hanging on the line were now strewn diagonally across the lawn and almost to the hay field.  Brent and I laughed at the image of Neighbor Blake possibly finding shredded jeans and t-shirt in his mower when he cuts that field this week.   

The pictures are of plants around the yard.  Niece Rachel had asked how to tell the diff between butter-and-eggs flowers and bird's foot trefoil.  Found a patch of butter-and-eggs growing by Sleipner so have included it here.  Bird's foot trefoil is all yellow with a different shaped flower.   Cousin Dawn and I had noticed the torch cactus shot out a flower stalk (whimsically creepy?) and she'd asked when the flower would bloom.  I didn't know then but can now say it would take another two days.  All spring I trained a Black-eyed Susan vine up the back of the electrical backboard.  Watched it's daily progress as it wrapped loop after tiny loop around the string provided.  Today it's finally topped the backboard!