July started beautifully at a wonderfully cool 45 F, which is warming quickly, but the forecast high is mid-70’s …that’s getting towards as hot as we’d like, but it IS July now. The air is as fresh and clean as it looks, the birdies are singing and all is right in our world – hope in yours as well.
This is the day the Lord has made. Rejoice and be glad in it! Psalm 118:24
I’m not sure what these are. I’ve been saying Bluebells to myself, but I couldn’t find them in my book this morning by that name and after a quick look at the blue and purple section,I did not find a match. Help from the audience, please.
**EDIT – 7/1…the consensus (see comments) is Penstemon. And add’l info from my mother:
“Penstemon is also known as beardstongue. According to my books it is very hard to decide which one you are dealing with since there are about 15 different ones. The purple/blue one is common in the West in June and July We have a lot of them and after the lupines they are a welcome sight of blue.” **
Whatever, they are pretty – they are blooming now and they are a change from lupins.
Photos taken 6/19/2010 in Wayfarer’s Park by Flathead Lake, Bigfork, MT
This morning began with heavy air…humid and overcast. Karl did not come out of his closet when I went outside. I believe that he feels the humidity and equates that with weather he’d rather avoid.
I decided that we’d change up the routine and putter about the woods this morning. I had to coax him outside but when I finally did, the air had cleared and dried and the sky was blue.
The lupins at the park by Flathead Lake are going to seed and looking bedraggled. But our lupins have a little more time.
The mountains, the sunlight in the woods on the grass, trees and lichen…the bumper crop of lupins – they all seem especially gorgeous this year.
And sometimes a beardog walks through the lupins…
…and meets up with his cat, which apparently is funny – at least funny enough to make a beardog smile!
But then there is a stick…
…and then we all walk home…through the lupins.
…Bob is in the shade.
…and he’s snoring…
Karl and I were out early.
We walked near Flathead Lake at Wayfarer’s Park just before 8:00 a.m. – It was not quite 60 but after climbing to the overlook (Flathead Lake, Wayfarer’s Park) – we were warm enough.
As I write this (3:30 p.m.), it is 86! And tomorrow, we really get our comeuppance as a cool front is due to overrun this heat and that usually makes for thunderstorms….
A prayer. Hebrews 13: 20
May the God of peace,
who through the blood of the eternal covenant
brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus,
that great Shepherd of the sheep,
equip you with everything good for doing His will
and may He work in us
what is pleasing to Him through Jesus Christ,
to whom be the glory,
forever and ever.
Photos taken this day (6/27/2010) at sunrise in my woods.
…but oh, the raindrops left behind are beautiful!
The squalls that were only rumbles of thunder and dark clouds at my house, must have rained plenty in Bigfork. This photo from Wayfarer’s park when Karl and I walked this morning: Pointed Mariposa and Indian Paintbrush. (Double-click this one – so gorgeous full screen!)
At home today, a repeat of yesterday, but today’s fun DID include rain. Green continues in yards, pastures and on the mountainsides :)!