Morning Sky & Flowers

Early morning sky by the frontyard.

See more great skies here:  Skywatch Friday

See more beautiful flowers around the world here:  Today's Flowers

Marking Time

Today, Wordscoop is a month’s old, and counting.
The family also celebrates our daughter’s birthday even as I preempted posting this note last week on the 23rd, about my wife’s. Yes, these flowers were hers for that special occasion.
We really have a lot of marking times on July, my son had his on the 5th.

Personal Theme Day: Green Gladiola

Late week of April, I planted the perennial gladiola corms from last year's plants and now am looking forward for some bright flowers to pop out. I remember there were blooms of yellow, pink, red, and some with mixed colors, but for this first flower spike, I just guess it could be more reddish than the other colors. Have to wait for few more days before it would burst into full bloom so I can check out what really is the real color. Nature has a way of keeping us guessing, though.
Since this post had been preempted for weeks, so no more guessing now, but enjoy the flowers, instead.

Bees and Wasps

Could it be the swarm of flying insects feeding on flowers I encountered the other day and gave me time to take a lot of takes were bees feeding from the flowers and not  wasps?

Wasps and then One

Passed by the busy wasps hovering on the flowers I got busy, too, taking “stolen” shots of their activity(ies). But there is one intruder. Can you see it? I can't name the flower though.

Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom

We go unconventional this time, as we felicitate this July fourth, I say, “let a thousand flowers bloom,” in hills and valleys, in dales and fields, by the city sidewalks and park lots, near window panes and front and back yards. Here, Mums, of the Genus Chrysanthemum, are silent fireworks basking in the summer sun.