Time has been rolling past, as it ever does, and somehow I've let six weeks' worth of ride photos build up without blogging any of them! I have no excuse, and will offer none. Let's look at wildflowers instead.
Here is some stately spiderwort, with a cloud of yarrow in the background:
Cheerful daisies growing wild in a field:
Dainty crown vetch:
And regal hoary vetch:
Bright hoary puccoon:
And, just for a change, a beautiful double rainbow that appeared between passing storms:
Back to the flowers. This beauty rejoices in the name of hoary vervain:
(On a side note, why hoary? Why not something more euphonious, like fuzzy or fleecy or woolly?)
Here's a lovely wheatfield that I pass on my way to work:
Starlike St. John's wort:
Glorious orange milkweed:
Snowy viburnum:
Knapweed:
One of the many varieties of wild sunflower:
A gorgeous combination of daylily and hoary vetch:
Wild bergamot (the Phyllis Diller of flowers, I always think):
Common milkweed:
The humble soapwort, or Bouncing Bet:
Fleabane:
And one of my favourites, delicate whorled milkweed:
Life isn't all wildflowers all the time, hence this photo of Amish hay-gathering:
And now, back to our scheduled programming. This is rudbeckia, or black-eyed Susan:
Though we've had some brutally hot and humid weather this month, there have also been refreshing days of halcyon blue-and-white skies. This was one of them:
The next little plant is the charmingly-named heal-all:
A favourite bend in the road:
This tiny flower has a name much bigger than itself - pointed-leaf tick trefoil, or Desmodium glutinosum:
This is a new-to-me wildflower called common kidney vetch:
This might be coreopsis:
And this, of course, is Iris the bike:
Butter-and-eggs, anyone?
Another of my favourite flowers, wild chicory:
My last photo is for the train-lovers among us:
Whew! All caught up now.
How is July treating you?
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