Showing posts with label wildflower mania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wildflower mania. Show all posts

Sunday, June 9, 2019

Mother Nature Still In Control

A high meadow planted in wildflowers that have bloomed for a couple of weeks now, had another surprise as these peony poppy like plants have come up through the bed of prairie grasses that were cut in the fall and were bedded down over winter after being  sown with wildflowers.

The point is this: one must visit the meadow three or four times a week as plants come up almost over night with the warming temperatures and the large amount of rain that we have had this year already. The flowers are stunning and coming into the last phase of such beauty.The view changes as more species come up and bloom.

For a better look at the beauty, you can click on the image and it will open up at a higher percentage for viewing. See the total beauty of these wildflowers that nature held back until the very end of her spring run.

It All Started in the wee hours of May 28th when 80 MPH winds was tossing everything against the side of my house.

 Those winds were substained for well over 40 minutes. The results were trees everywhere down or large branches broken off. One of my bus ro...