Picture of the Day for May 25, 2013

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When I was mowing lawn yesterday, I had to stop several times to take some pictures of the clouds. There was a ring around the sun and other clouds had rainbow colors in them. Away from the sun, the ‘horse tail’ clouds or Cirrus clouds filled the sky.

The Cirrus clouds consist almost exclusively of ice crystals that appear on the sky in white delicate patches or narrow bands, and it was those ice crystals that caused the colorful ring around the sun and the rainbow clouds.

The common English name for a cirrus cloud is Mare’s Tails since the long threads of cloud often resemble a horse’s tail. Cirrus clouds are sometimes a sign that wet and stormy weather might be coming. And that it did, as it rained during the night, which won’t help getting the fields planted.

Mare’s Tails

Mare's Tails

Picture of the Day for May 24, 2013

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A field of dandelions can actually look pretty in the spring time by adding yellow color against the new green grass. The part I hate is when they turn white and the seeds start blowing in my face. But I suppose the finches and other birds are happy to have the seeds to eat and the bees like the nectar and pollen.

Dandelions are thought to have evolved about thirty million years ago in Eurasia and probably arrived in North America on the Mayflower – not as stowaways, but brought on purpose for their medicinal benefits.

That weed most are trying to get rid of, are more nutritious than most of the vegetables in your garden and are among the most expensive items in the grocery store. The roots are dried and sold as a no-caffeine coffee substitute – for $31.75 a pound.

Whether you love them or hate them, dandelions are, quite possibly, the most successful plants that exist; masters of survival worldwide.

Field of Yellow

Field of Yellow

Picture of the Day for May 22, 2013

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The Virginia Bluebell is a hardy, North American early spring-flowering perennial with delicate, terminal clusters of light pink buds, which open to flared, long-tubular, sky-blue to purple flowers. Also known as Virginia Cowslip, Mountain Cowslip, and Roanoke Bells.

On April 16, 1766, in one of his earliest observations in his Garden Book, Thomas Jefferson noted, “the bluish colored, funnel-formed flower in the low grounds in bloom.” It was introduced to Britain by 1700 and Williamsburg’s John Custis sent roots to his patron Peter Collinson in the 1730s. According to Philip Miller’s 1754 edition of Gardener’s Dictionary, the seeds came earlier from a Reverend John Banister in the 1600s, but the plants died out.

Colorful Virginia Bluebells

Colorful Virginia Bluebells

Picture of the Day for May 17, 2013

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Between the finches, orioles, hummingbirds, grosbeak and all the other birds, I am having trouble keeping all the feeders filled. And the Rose-breasted Grosbeak sure chows down a lot of seeds if even if they are supposed to eat insects.

The male Rose-breasted Grosbeak takes a turn incubating the eggs for several hours during the day, while the female incubates the rest of the day and all night long. Both sexes sing quietly to each other when they exchange places. The male sometimes sings his normal song at full volume from inside the flimsy nest where the eggs are often visible from below through the nest bottom..

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Picture of the Day for May 16, 2013

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This Trout Lily is the one I am used to seeing, instead of the white variety I stumbled upon the other day. The Yellow Trout Lily gets its name from the leaf markings that look similar to a brown or brook trout. Although we normally call them Adder’s Tongues, but referring to a trout seems nicer than a snake!

Yellow Trout Lily

Yellow Trout Lily

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