...FLOWERS
Wednesday, 8:00 AM. 75 degrees F on the porch, several degrees cooler at the lake shore. Wind W, light with stronger gusts. The sky is mostly a high overcast, it is hazy, the humidity is up at 88% and the barometer is trending down at 29.73". It is muggy and it certainly ought to rain.
Yesterday morning was hot and humid, and with nothing better to do a visit to the beach seemed in order. Buddy loves running through the dune grasses. Above he is pointing a duck about fifty feet away on the water's edge, while a bald eagle sits on a favorite fishing perch above the mouth of the Sioux River.
The big-leaf asters, Aster macrophyllus, are in bloom now, and are particularly prolific where there has been an opening in the forest canopy. They are quite beautiful in mass.
The blossoms of the meadow sweet, Spirea tomentosa, are particularly pretty now, and wild carrot, Daucus carrota, AKA Queen Anne's lace, have been blooming along the roadsides for a week or more but this is the first opportunity I have had to photograph one. Just because it is called wild carrot doesn't mean you should try to eat the roots, because although they are probably not poisonous, many similar looking plants in the parsley family are.
Headline: '72 MIAMI DOLPHINS FOOTBALL TEAM HONORED BY PRESIDENT OBAMA AT WHITE HOUSE IN RECOGNITION OF THEIR UNDEFEATED SEASON. Good Grief! Has this man nothing better to do?
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