Since I used an old truck picture yesterday, I figured it was time for an older barn picture. This barn caught my eye since it is quite different from the barns around my area so I had to backup to take this barn shot. Even the silo was different with the pretty stone base under the concrete stave structure.
Red Framed Windows Barn
For Mother’s Day, one often gives flowers to mom and for Father’s Day, tools or other manly things might be the preferred gifts. I wonder if this old Ford truck would work as a gift for both mom and dad since it is a manly toy with flowers!
Manly Flower Truck
I am always on the lookout for old things like barns, tractors, machinery and trucks. While this truck isn’t really old, it is old looking and makes a wonderful flower pot.
Flower Truck
In the United States, Flag Day is celebrated on June 14. It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States, which happened on that day in 1777 by resolution of the Second Continental Congress.
The idea of an annual day specifically celebrating the Flag is believed to have first originated in 1885. BJ Cigrand, a schoolteacher, arranged for the pupils in the Fredonia, Wisconsin Public School, District 6, to observe June 14 (the 108th anniversary of the official adoption of The Stars and Stripes) as ‘Flag Birthday’. In numerous magazines and newspaper articles and public addresses over the following years, Cigrand continued to enthusiastically advocate the observance of June 14 as ‘Flag Birthday’, or ‘Flag Day’.
You can spot flags in various places but it isn’t often you see a flag pattern on a barn roof. All I know is that I would not want to have been one of the workers shingling the roof as I probably would have messed up the pattern and it would have been a mess instead of a flag.
Flag Barn
The June days are bringing forth beautiful flowers. Even the ant is enjoying the flowers.
Enjoying Flowers
It can be real relaxing sitting by the water watching the birds and ducks flying around the lake and listening to the gentle lapping of waves on the shore and the call of the loons.
Sunset by Lakeside
The honeysuckle bushes in pink blossoms looks very pretty but Tatarian honeysuckles as well as the Amur and Morrow honeysuckles are non-native plants that are able to out-compete native wildflowers for light and other resources. Bush honeysuckles green up earlier in the spring than most other plants, giving them an advantage over other species.
Tatarian Honeysuckle Blossoms
Normally autumn is when leaves are photographed in their array of bright colors, but the normal green colors can be pretty too against the white bark. The nuthatches like to run up and down the bark too.
Summer Leaves
It was nice to spot both the Redheaded Woodpecker and the Pileated Woodpecker today since they aren’t not regulars to the bird feeders but what I didn’t expect to see outside was a peacock. It was trying to get into my basement and it probably wished it succeeded as now it is hiding under the pine tree because of the rain shower.
The Indian Peafowl or Blue Peafowl (Pavo cristatus) is a large and brightly colored bird of the pheasant family native to South Asia, but introduced and semi-feral in many other parts of the world. The species was first named and described by Linnaeus in 1758.
Technically, only males are peacocks. Females are peahens, and together, they are called peafowl. Peacocks are ground-feeders that eat insects, plants, and small creatures.
Peahens often choose males for the quality of their trains — the quantity, size, and distribution of the colorful eye-spots. Experiments show that offspring of males with more eye-spots are bigger at birth and better at surviving in the wild than offspring of birds with fewer eye-spots.
Indian Peafowl
One bad thing about the long stretch of rainy weather, is that there have been few sunsets visible this spring.
Few Sunsets
