this week

A perennial phlox

Hollyhock

Kiss-Me-Over-The-Gate

White Oriental Lily

Meadow rue. Regretfully, I didn't get a picture of the whole thing.

food break

As you may becoming aware, I like muffins. Here are some of the most delicious muffins I've made yet.[recipe 'Get It Ripe']

~ Zucchini Date Muffins ~

And the cooked muffin finally made it into a picture, dark and small.

Hungry

Cold cucumber soup, broiled cheese bread with olive oil, and watermelon

Simple man's meal of millet and black eyed peas with garlic

Hungry again

Pincushion flower or Scabiosa

Crownvetch as a wild ground cover in the parking lot

Echinacea

Fly on a poppy

Yarrow

Japanese beetle on an echinacea flower

My breakfast this morning. Fried eggs with homemade sourdough toast, from my boss, and black tea

And a fresh bouquet for the weekend. Dyer's Tickseed coreopsis and hyssop

This plant is used as a dye. See below!

Also this week, I learned what 'a moveable feast' means. I always liked Hemingway's title, but still don't know how the book relates to what I learned because I've never read the book (This is also quite timely after seeing 'Midnight in Paris' not too long ago!). But it must be based on the origin of the phrase (indeed it is so, I just read such information on wikipedia)-- which comes from religious holy days (holi-days!) not being a fixed day because they are dependent on the rhythm of the moon. More to this we can be sure.