Friday, June 6, 2008

What's blooming today and a really good book

Hopefully today's blooms will still be standing after last night's storms. It never fails, when the peonies and iris bloom, we always get rain, hail and high winds. Those huge, heavy flowers fill up with water and topple over onto the mud.



I've had this yellow iris for years. One of my favorites.




Below: A photo from some time ago. These tough little columbines will grow anywhere. They have such a delicate bloom but they are tough, drought tolerant very cold hardy.




























Here are a few iris that survived the rain and wind.

A lucky accident that the iris just happen to blend so well with the chives.




This weekend I'm rereading Virginia Lanier's first book Death in Bloodhound Red. If you are a mystery reader and/or a dog lover, you will want to read this wonderful series. Lanier's character, Jo Beth Sidden, is a professional dog trainer who contracts with local law enforcement to search out people lost in the near by Okefenokee Swamp. Her search and rescue missions are usually harrowing. Avoiding quicksand, poisonous snakes, and her murderous ex-husband Bubba are among the challenges she and her dogs face. You will also learn a lot you never knew about tracking with dogs. Sadly, Virginia Lanier passed away a few years ago so her novels are all the more precious because there will never be any more.

5 comments:

Mr. McGregor's Daughter said...

You should have claimed design credit for the Iris/Chives combo! It seems that the rains that keep falling on the rest of the State & happy to avoid my house. I don't get it. I've been looking for a new book series to read, but usually I hate amateur detectives because they're like Typhoid Mary - everywhere they go, someone drops dead. I'm also sick of police procedurals. This series sounds like a good alternative.

Roses and Lilacs said...

We had a couple more rounds of storms over the weekend. My garden is now horizontal:(

I like amazon.com's feature where you can read a chapter. It's still possible to get a looser book, but sometimes that first chapter will hook you.

I know what you mean about Typhoid Mary. LOL Anybody living in a small town with an amateur detective has a short life expectancy. They are gonna get murdered sooner or later.

tina said...

A lucky accident indeed. The iris and chives blend beautifully!

Roses and Lilacs said...

Who would have thought those two would not only blend perfectly but bloom at exactly the same week?

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