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“Come! Bring your camera!”
Grant called out from the front door.
The roses of Sharon are in bloom. The bushes are tucked in a corner where you tend not to notice them.
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There are lots of buds, so I’ll have to add a stop to my morning tour.
It wouldn’t do to miss them!
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One or two other images offered themselves…
A grasshopper posed, this way and that.
A 2-striped plant hopper joined the shoot.
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The gladiolas are also in bloom despite interference by some unknown creature that attempted to dig up the bulbs.
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Stopping for a light in Greenwich gave me the opportunity to admire flowers outside a shop.
Petunias and Chilean jasmine.
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At Hannaford’s, panicled hydrangeas were abuzz with bees.
The delicate shape of the flowers catches the light in a most attractive way.
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Coming home from Greenwich that day, I struggled to take in the sky, so we did a very quick loop off the main road…
Climbing a hill…
…seemingly right up into those lovely clouds.
Passing a farm.
The skyline changes daily as the corn shoots up.
A storm front was approaching from the west.
We turned back onto route 372…
Descending into Cambridge Valley…
A straight road would get us home in two minutes.
But we have to go all the way around.
In a big loop.
Which allows us to take in 360 degrees of sky and there’s nothing wrong with that.
Thank you, Carolyn, for such beautiful photos! The flowers, landscapes, the sky, and the clouds, all a joy to look at!
Joanna
I never tire of your sky pictures! The flowers, too, are beautiful, and I don’t know why your eastern deer population isn’t eating your lilies! Poor Jane, next door, who hasn’t the benefit of Eddy’s disapproval of deer inside his boundary, has not a single lily blooming. Though the deer there are quite fat and happy!
Beautiful blooms, insects, and skies!
Your flower posts are almost as entertaining as your cat and wildlife posts! Of course, who is going to take the 2-minute drive home when instead, there’s a long loop to drive?
Good to see the big skies, and it was nice of the grasshoppers to pose for you too.
Best wishes, Pete.