The fall flowers are catching some sunshine before the colder weather returns. Yellow Toadflax or Butter-and-Eggs is another invasive species native to Europe, Siberia and Central Asia which has spread and common now in North America.
Yellow Toadflax
At the end of some frilly green leaves, a splash of pink color of the yarrow displays in the late summer sun.
Pink and Green
The summer lilies comes in different sizes and range of colors.
Colorful Lilies
This lily was sneaking under a wooden fence rail to get more notice from the road traffic.
Sneaky Lily
Summer means lilies blooming in a range of color and shapes, like these dancing orange blossoms in a road ditch, although it is another non-native plant that has escape from gardens.
Tiger Lilies Dancing
Queen Anne’s Lace, is a common sight in roadside ditches this time of year and is considered an invasive weed. Although not native flower, the eastern black swallowtail caterpillars as well as many other bees, butterflies and insects utilize this flower’s nectar. Because of the flower’s dark red center, one legend of how the flower got its name is because Queen Anne II pricked her finger while tatting lace, causing a drop of blood to fall on the lace.
Queen Anne’s Lace
Springtime patches of primroses add splashes of color along a path in the woods.
Primroses
The winds knocked out power in the morning and made it hard to take a photo of flowers as they waved in the strong breeze, but bleeding hearts had a blue backdrop with the sun shining. But the month of May had some very dark times with other hearts bleeding over the loss of family, friends and neighbors from tragic violence.
Bleeding Hearts
There were flower shortages and price increases because of the Valentine’s Day demand, but I rather have chocolates anyway. It will be several months before my bleeding heart will be in blossom so maybe they should moved Valentine’s Day to a warmer month when you could pick dandelions for your loved one.
The Bleeding Heart
Now that Christmas Day is over and it wasn’t a real white one, I wouldn’t mind if it got warm and green again with blooming flowers. But instead the forecast is calling for 3 to 5 inches of snow with blowing snow and even some freezing rain so it will be months before flowers begin to bloom again.
Summer Iris
