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| STAR FLOWER |
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| DWARF CORNEL (AKA BUNCHBERRY) |
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| CANADA MAYFLOWER |
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| WEEKEND PROJECT COMPLETED |
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| LUPINES |
Tuesday, 8:30 AM. Wind WSW, moderate. The sky is overcast, and it is raining again. The prediction of the barometer is inconclusive.
The spring northern woodland wildflowers are pretty much in full bloom. Dwarf cornel (Cornus Canadensis), Canada may flower (Maianthemum Canadensis) and star flower (Trientalis borealis) are all in flower now along Bloom Road, and the Lupines are blooming everywhere in the fields and along roadsides.
Working between the raindrops over the holiday weekend I managed to finish my little landscape project in the front yard and I am pleased with it. The shrubs are ‘Gold Flame’ Spireas. I had to create something to draw attention away from a bad pruning job on the big Colorado blue spruce in the neighboring yard.
We ate lunch yesterday along the bay in Ashland and saw a brown pelican flying, the first one we have seen in the area (which doesn’t necessarily mean they are rare, just that we haven’t seen them). They are quite a sight, akin to watching a B52 bomber in flight. When we lived in Nebraska we used to see flocks of the huge birds, skimming along the water or circling the big reservoirs in close V formation, flapping their wings and gliding, then flapping their wings and gliding again, in perfect military unison.
If it ever dries up I will need to mow the lawn.
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