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
Picture of the Day for June 22, 2014
Like many of the old wooden barn, many rural churches have been abandoned and might be used only a few times a year, if at all. So it is nice to see ones still surviving in the rural countryside, like the Wilson Lutheran Church in Western Wisconsin, which is celebrating its 125th anniversary today.
Celebrating Quasquicentennial
Picture of the Day for June 21, 2014
It is the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere, which is when the Sun reaches the farthest point north of the equator and giving us the most hours of sunlight for the whole year. The word solstice is from the Latin solstitium from sol (sun) and stitium (to stop), because it appears the sun stops at the solstice.
And today the sun is actually out for a change instead of raining so I can see the longest day of sunlight, which for my area is fifteen hours and thirty-six minutes. But now that we reached the longest day, each day will be shorter and minutes will disappear like the dandelion seeds and before you know it, the ground won’t be covered with white dandelions but with white snow instead.
Disappearing Daylight
Picture of the Day for June 20, 2014
The flowers were late blooming this year with the extremely long winter and now that they are blooming, it is hard to enjoy them because of the rainy days but at least they are dry this morning. The birds and critters probably are enjoying a break from the rain too as much as I am.
Sea of Color
Picture of the Day for June 19, 2014
Today is Tippy’s birthday, a cat I raised on a bottle and was the star of my children’s book. She turns seven today but she is not a happy birthday girl since after my other house cat died, I figure she could use some company of other cats and put her in the small house with a fenced in run. Well she is not happy with the new accommodations at all and is now a snarly, hissing cat.
Click the play button to hear the ‘happy’ birthday girl.
Unhappy Birthday Girl
Picture of the Day for June 18, 2014
The wild roses are blooming but it is difficult to get a picture of them as the bugs are hungry and eat holes in them or the rain and wind beat them up from all the recent storms, but I did find one to take a picture of even though a bug landed on it after I took the picture.
Wild Rose Blooming
Picture of the Day for June 17, 2014
The abnormal spring rainfall has been washing out culverts and causing flooding since the storms have been dropping a lot of rain in a short time. Hopefully this barn is high enough up on the hill so the critters in the barn don’t have to wade through water.
Red Reflections
