A Tour of our Yard

Come take a little tour and enjoy the blooms in our garden this week. A lot of my perennials have already bloomed for this year with mostly coneflowers, black-eyed susans and tickseed to see. Because of all the rain this summer, we have a wonderful crop of wildflowers on the perimeter of our yard, which we enjoy.

Sedum (donated from my sister's garden)

Shasta Daisy

My New Garden Ornament

Tickseed

Pearly Everlasting

Orange Jewelweed & Tansy Ragwort

Fleabane

Indian Grass

Cattails

This marsh plant I have not been able to identify in my wildflower books

Purple Loosestrife

Buttercup

Another unidentified wildflower

Robin's nest

Fireweed

Another unidentified wildflower

Raspberry

Raspberry and Thistle

Coneflower (donated from my friend Giselle's garden)

Black-eyed Susan, with Bee

I love walking about our yard every day to see what new treasures are in bloom. It always amazes me what can come from a little seed when you add soil, water and sunshine.

What is This Beautiful Creature?

Yesterday morning when we looked out of our window we saw, what we thought to be, a leaf or piece of plastic on our back deck. When I went out and took a closer look, I discover this beautiful insect, but I had no idea what it was. It was quite large for a moth-like insect, with a wing span of probably 3 inches. The colour and detailing of the body were amazing.

It quietly stayed on our deck and did not seem to mind me being close by.

Unfortunately this blog entry does not have a happy ending. Later in the day we found that this beautiful creature had not lived, so we put it to rest in the willow trees nearby.