Another bright object in the fields and ditches now is another noxious weed commonly known as Orange Hawkweed.
Do hawks eat this plant to improve their vision? According to a folktale this is how this plant was named. In fact, hawkweed was brought to America from Europe by herb doctors to cure eye diseases.
But Hawkweed is also referred to as the “devil’s paintbrush” because it invades farmers fields and out-competes many native species.
Orange Hawkweed
The other day I posted a picture this barn from the other side and at the time, I couldn’t decide which view I liked better, so by posting the other view now, I don’t have to make the decision.
The gray tin siding makes this barn so different from the other older wooden barns and why it caught my eye so much and I why I had to back up to shoot this barn.
Old Tin Barn
Irises are not like winter since they do not last long. Open one day and gone the next and a long wait until next year’s bloom.
Waning Irises
The daisies are creating little smiley faces even if the sun doesn’t shine on them very often with the rainy days. The Oxeye Daisy is another flower that was brought over from Europe and has escaped since a daisy can produce up to 26,000 seeds per plant.
Oxeye Daisy
The bungleweed, or carpetweed, is adding blues and purples to the ground right now. A native plant to Europe, it is sometimes considered an invasive plant in parts of North America where it has been used for ground cover and has ‘escaped’.
Bungleweed
The irises had one day of glory in the sun before the rain and hail pounded on the poor flowers.
Sunny Irises
The calendar says the start of summer, but it isn’t a sunny summer day but a rather wet one. But there are some summer flowers out in different colors like orange, pink, yellow, white, blue and even some purple.
Summer Begins
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This old Dodge B-Series pickup (1948 to 1953) doesn’t seem to have any ‘pick up and go’ at the moment, just the way I feel sometimes on the dark, rainy days.
Old Dodge Truck
As I continue the ‘old’ theme week, the subject is a birthday girl who is six years old today. Now most would not consider six as being old for a cat but it is for Miss Tippy since this ‘nice’ orphan kitty that I rescued when a few days old gives me presents in the sink when she is unhappy with me. And the ‘presents’ is poop so she is running out of her nine days and may lose her home comforts as I lose my patience.
Birthday Kitty
This naughty cat was the subject of children book I wrote a year ago so that is her only saving grace.
The back end of an old potato planter is a good continuation of the ‘old’ week. With the unusual wet spring, the horse drawn equipment had a better chance of getting into the field than the big tractors.
Old Planter
