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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The June days are bringing forth beautiful flowers. Even the ant is enjoying the flowers.
Enjoying Flowers
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
Earth Day is an annual holiday, celebrated on April 22, on which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection.
In 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco, the date proposed for Earth Day was March 21, 1970, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. A month later a separate Earth Day was founded by United States Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in first held on April 22, 1970.
Nelson chose the date in order to maximize participation on college campuses for what he conceived as an “environmental teach-in”. He determined the week of April 19–25 was the best bet as it did not fall during exams or spring breaks and was late enough in spring to have decent weather.
You would think a senator from Wisconsin would know that April is not late enough to have ‘decent’ weather, especially since it is snowing very heavily on this Earth Day in Wisconsin.
Earth Day
I saw a group of horses yesterday that appeared to be as sick of the snow as I am and I bet they would like green pastures soon instead of the snow that is on its way this afternoon!
Horse enjoying summer!
Since the snow won’t let up, there hasn’t been very many sunsets due to the overcast days and definitely no grass to sit on to watch the sun go down.
Waiting for a Sunset
The rain is melting some of the snow and causing some water to run into lakes and rivers but no green yet especially if weather forecast is correct and more snow arrives tomorrow.
Rushing River
There won’t be a nice Sunday stroll through the woods today, not with the ground still covered with snow and not covered with blooming plants and flowers.
Stroll Through the Woods
