Lilies

The Lilies are in bloom.

Their colors are a delight, their scent, heavenly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Lily

The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,

The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:

While the Lily white shall in love delight,

Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.

 

William Blake

28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827 / London

 

 

Lilies

The Lilies are in bloom.

Their colors are a delight, their scent, heavenly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Lily

The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,

The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:

While the Lily white shall in love delight,

Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.

 

William Blake

28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827 / London

 

June Blooms

We're just a few days into the month of June, and yet the weather is as hot as the month of July.
Very little rain, and so the flowers are being watered every day.
I'm busy doing a rain dance, would you care to join ?

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.

~Jane Austen

Summer Rain

Mother Nature heard my plea and sent rain to this lush Tennessee valley today.
If you listened carefully you could hear the trees and flowers, heaving a big sigh of relief, their roots and foliage drinking in every last drop of moisture.


It's raining; it's pouring.
The old man is snoring.
He went to bed and bumped his head,
And he couldn't get up in the morning

Oliver thinks it is a good day to snooze, something he has mastered to a perfection.

The Bacopa baskets continue to bloom despite the extreme heat

I managed to gather a few flowers, in between rain showers

A new pot of Daylilies waiting to be planted

A break in the heat

away from the front

no thunder, no lightning,

just rain, warm rain

falling near dusk

falling on eager ground

steaming blacktop

hungry plants

thirsty

turning toward the clouds

cooling, soothing rain

splashing in sudden puddles

catching in open screens

that certain smell

of summer rain

~ Summer Rain : Raymond A Foss