This and That: A Blog

 I'll start out July (July?  Already?) with some random things. There's been a very nice break in the high temperatures for the past week.  We even got quite a bit of rain one night!  They're slowing creeping up again, but no 90s expected until Friday.  Blazing Star (Liatris)  Bees go crazy for this flower. I think the chives look pretty even when the purple flowers are gone.   The oregano is starting to flower.  I don't cut it back, I leave it for the pollinators.  In the front yard the bees pick the blazing star, in the back it's all about the oregano. I forgot I planted some grocery store Oriental lilies until this popped up through the Moonshine yarrow and Phenomenal lavender.  It smells so nice.  The lily I mean, even nicer than the lavender!   Mickey knows how to nag for a walk to the park. Sprinkler drops on a small piece of tree that broke off.  This was at the park.  Mickey got his way! Someone forgot a ...

 Postcards Again!  I'm not sure if I mentioned how agreeable the manager at St. Vincent de Paul was on the "big haul" postcard purchase days.  Maybe it's because she was retiring in June!  One day she brought out boxes of antique postcards for me to look through, and told the volunteer cashiers to give me 25% off all my postcards that day!   Here's what I got (the dogs from the same day are under all the ephemera.)  There are the holy/prayer cards from a previous post.  The WWII ship photos will be featured on an upcoming Tuesday.  The only individual postcards shared today are two which come last, a case of "Last, but not least."  I got a lot of postcard books.  Amboise, France with tissue between each image. Amboise is on the Loire River. Chicago to La Junta Overland Set No 1 depicts scenes along the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, and were produced exclusively for them. I got several postcard books of Pike's Peak from t...

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 I hope you're ready for some daylily photos!   Left are some mysteries. The top right is Ned's Choice , a spider from, and bottom right is a new bloomer, My Reggae Tiger .  Or, it supposed to be My Reggae Tiger , but it's a spider and has more yellow.  It came in a three pack called Once in a Lifetime and it is the only one, so far, to bloom.   A nicer photo of the maybe My Reggae Tiger . One of my oldest, Scottish Fantasy , planted in 2020.  Top left: Insider Trading , right Moon Over Monterey Bottom left: Longfield's Pink , right Hyperion An unnamed (or unknown name) spider.  What makes daylilies spider forms?  The petals are four times, or more, the length of their width.  They often curl inward, like spider legs.  Heavenly Angel Ice is a spider as well.  Grape Magi c is one of my favorites, which came in a four pack from Walmart in 2020 for only $4!   Double Classic Top left: unknown, right is Bonanza ...

 We're up to the letter V for Sunday Stamps .   V ariegated Fairy-Wren  Australia 2001 V iper, Guatemalan Palm Pit  Kingdom of Cambodia 1988 V ulture, Rüppell's Griffon  Mauritania 1963  Only a few letters left!  Next week will be W . 

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