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Wednesday, August 01, 2007
August Begins
I went out early this morning to take a few pictures of noticeable items
of interest to me. The first thing out of the door, I noticed that one
of the ducks was in the 'pool' and quacking at me as I stepped off the
back porch. It's still amazes me that they don't need more water to swim
and keep them happy.
Next
I drove the Mule to the mum patch and there I noticed a ear of corn, a
better description would be, a bare ear of corn. We had 'corn invaders'
for the last few nights. I've tried to pick the corn as soon as it
becomes ready to eat, but I think raccoons are beating me to a lot of
the corn.
If
the blooms are any indication of how many pumpkins we will have, it
looks good for this fall.
The
mums have had a major growth spurt with the recent rains and are looking
quite well. I've left them alone for a little over a week, but they need
the grass pulled from next to the plants as soon as we get another
shower.
Back
up the road, closer to the house, the 'Rose of Sharon' bushes are
blooming and so are the 'Chigger Weed' plants.
Another
type of flower that is currently blooming is the 'Naked Ladies'. The
reason they are called 'naked' is because when they bloom, there is no
foliage. The foliage grows early in the season and then dies and is gone
when, within a couple of days, the stems shoot up to a height of around
2 feet and the blooms pop out within a couple more days.
I
did a GOOGLE search
and found out they are called "Amaryllis Belladona" and sometimes known
as belladonna lilies. Here, they still are most often simply referred to
as naked ladies. Did you notice the bug that is camouflaged and hiding
in the 'chigger weed'?
