The flowers have been beckoning me to bring the camera outside–before it’s too late! So, today I got out there before it rained.
Bittersweet, the mockingbird has found a girl, and they are busily preparing a home. He’s no longer singing at all hours of the day and night, and I miss that.
Mr. and Mrs. Song Sparrow are also busily preparing for their future family. He has taken over the mockingbird’s singing post and scolds anyone who dares to venture into his territory (which I believe encompasses most of the side and back yards).
The rest is what is in bloom, and in the case of the Lorapetalum, not in bloom, but pretty, as the foliage turns a deep maroon in the sunlight.
Silent Mockingbird
First Coneflower of 2012
Butterfly Bush–huge this year!
Bee Balm
Daylily
Milkweed
Astilbe
Tch Tch Tch Isn’t it time you went back in the house?
Lorapetalum
