The yellow lilies looked a little soggy from yesterday’s rain and I got wet taking the picture since it seemed to rain most of the day.
Wet Lily
Picture of the Day for July 1, 2014
When the sun finally breaks out and shines down on the rolling hills of southwestern Wisconsin, the rural landscape emerges with crop land, barns and livestock on a summer day under the white clouds above.
Rural Wisconsin
Picture of the Day for June 30, 2014
It is raining again and I’m not sure even the frogs like all the rain as they have to build their burrow entrances higher so they don’t drown and then I clip the tops off when I mow the lawn.
I did decide if I enter a frog jumping contest, that I would enter a toad instead. The little toad doesn’t make the long leaps which a frog can do, but I figured I would win the contest if I played the sound a lawn mower at the starting line since the toads quickly bounce away from the mower but the frogs jump right towards the mower. And so my little toad would win the frog jumping contest!
Wet Frog
Picture of the Day for June 29, 2014
Last Sunday, a local rural church celebrated 125 years, and while a congregation may continue, their building may not; sometimes due to fire, storm damage or age. The ‘Old Red Brick Church’, as known by the locals, is old and it is feeling its 109 years. The congregation have deemed the building unsafe and unusable and the cost to repair is beyond the means of the members so they voted to ‘deconstruct’ the local landmark.
Old Red Too Old
Picture of the Day for June 28, 2014
The Orange Hawkweeds might like all the rain since they are blooming where I haven’t been able to mow the lawn. But the plant isn’t supposed to be on my lawn as it is an evasive species and it is becoming a problem in many areas. And while the rain is helping it survived from mowing, the blossoms close up in shade so they aren’t helping the insects during all the cloudy days.
Invasive Orange
Picture of the Day for June 27, 2014
The rainy days have prevented me from getting many sunset pictures this summer, since if the sun manages to peek out, it is for a brief moment only.
Glimpse of the Sun
Picture of the Day for June 26, 2014
With more rain predicted the next few days, which will most likely set the record for the wettest June on record, I think a larger rock will be needed to keep the post from floating out of the ground.
Rock Too Small
Picture of the Day for June 25, 2014
A hillside of lupines are very pretty but they also change poor soils into a higher quality by fixing nitrogen and fertilizing barren lands. And there is a lot more to their pretty looks as they also have been used for food for over 6000 years, although never reaching the same status of a legume as soybeans or dry peas. Among the nearly 600 species of lupines, some varieties have the ‘sweet gene’ and are used more for food which have great dietary values and benefits.
More than Just Pretty Looks
Picture of the Day for June 24, 2014
The cattle are more interested in the hay than with the approaching storm, but then they are probably getting used to the storms and getting rained on since it has been a wet June.
Ignoring the Storm
Picture of the Day for June 23, 2014
The sun didn’t shine on this daisy very long today as it rained while I was mowing lawn so the daisies were the only smiling and sunny things I saw.
Sunny Daisy
