June week 1

I always like the first week of June; it's the unofficial start of summer and it includes my birthday. If only I had the entire summer off like I did years ago and like all my professor friends still do...

I was surprised to discover this grass pink, a native orchid, had volunteered itself at the library native plant garden.

Other things around town:
a venus flytrap at my office,

white coneflower,yucca, which has been blooming for several weeks now,
a beautiful red lily,
and at my house a Shirofuji hydrangea.
I stopped by a nearby house for sale and found:
pickeral weed,
wild petunia,

and milkweed.

I made a return trip to my friends Susie and Jeff's house and their yard was full of interesting blooms including:
Chastetree,
Mexican hat
beebalms with bees,

Schubert allium (well, past bloom in this case),

a neighbor's golden rain tree,

lizard's tail,

hydrangeas,

hydrangeas,

and hydrangeas.

Oh, and a white grass pink.

You can see the rest of my photos here.