Archive for ‘June, 2010’

To answer a question

Gayle from Southern California commented: “Love the soft grasses and lupin. The early spring flowers are such a treat. Do you have Spring Beauties, too? Glacier lilies? Sticky geranium? Pasque flower? Pussy toes?”

Pussy toes??? You want to see pussy toes???

Hmmph…I’ll show you pussy toes!

Prepare yourself…

The full effect.

Oh, she meant the wildflower???

Say it isn’t so.

Srsly :)!…Pussy toes are a wildflower and one of the few I can remember the name of since they actually DO look like pussy toes. As to the others – yes to Glacier Lilies, although this year they have been scarce. I don’t know Spring Beauties, sticky geranium or Pasque Flowers… which doesn’t mean we don’t have them…

Change in the weather

Montana is prone to overnight 180 degree changes in weather. We went from cool and rainy to warm-hot to us and dry.

It has been beautiful! A nice amount of rain and now mid 70’s, sunshine… The rain of last week has added to the lush green of spring but one warm, dry day and newly sown grass seed made it necessary to get out sprinklers and hoses.

The nice weather is distracting.

All we want to do is meander around the yard and woods and sit in the shade or on the front porch.

The lupins aren’t helping either…

They are blooming throughout the woods.

One fine day

Everything that is Montana in the Spring is in this photo: green grass and trees, blue sky, white clouds…dark clouds, snow rapidly retreating from the mountain tops.

The air is as clear and clean as it looks. A breeze comes up off and on and the dark clouds skirt the mountain tops but at noon, when Karl and I walked it felt like the late Spring day that it was.

A day a little warm in the sun for a black dog who isn’t quite rid of his winter undercoat. He’s waiting for me in a spot of shade.

Meanwhile, back at the house…

Mr. Bob gets a somewhat slower start to his Monday.

One fine day all around :)!

The little things

I spend a lot of time at my desk.

My desk faces east, in the sunroom with large windows all around. I am a morning person, usually up by 5:00 a.m. This time of year, it is just getting light as sunrise is just before 5:30. Sitting at my desk, I watch the sky slighten behind the mountains of the Swan Range, filtered by a bit of my woods.

To the west, the sunroom has both a window and a sliding glass door. The door leads to an alcove of grass in a corner made by the sunroom, which is tacked on to the end of the house. In that corner, shaded by a large Ponderosa Pine, is a small lilac bush and a patch of Lily-of-the-Valley. The Chair sits there. Karl likes to lie just beyond the big pine and keep watch over the ravine that is also an active game trail.

Earlier this week, on a gloomy, drippy morning, I brought a few sprigs of the lily-of-the-valley inside to sit on my desk. That pretty little cruet, the warm light from the little desk lamp, the perfect little blossoms…the little things.

The color of the woods

The sunshine that started yesterday morning lasted all day. The air was clean and clear. In the Spring, on days like yesterday, the color of the woods shines as bright as the sun.

The early wildflowers bloom. Indian Paintbrush started its show this week.

Photos taken 6/3/2010.