Garden Party

Summer has been here for 59 days now, and it has been a very pleasant one, 

but it is finally showing its true colors with a few sultry days.

While everyone is trying to cool off...

a young female cardinal wonders what's going on in the flowerbed.  

It's a party, of course.  

The Salvia and Rosemary sent out fragrant invitations on the breeze to the butterflies and hummingbirds:

You're invited to a garden party.

Refreshments will be served as the nectar lasts.

Please wear your dazzling colors.

And so they have come, dressed in their finery.  

When the party began,

 the rosemary flowers were all standing straight as soldiers at Buckingham Palace 

and forgot to bend a few stems for the hummingbirds to perch on.  

Fortunately, there was some thin, rusty wire in the shop that worked for seating.

If you build it, they will come.




Linking with:
id-rather-b-birdin
Saturday's Critters
and Wild Bird Wednesday

Thanks to Kim Klassen for her texture Cecile on the first image.

David Phlox

A patch of white David phlox is blooming just outside our bedroom window.  It's such a beautiful and reliable plant: so far this year, the deer haven't touched it, and the butterflies can't get enough of the blossoms.

A note about the image: 

Thanks to Kim Klassen for her excellent texture tutorial:

Kim Klassen's Texture Tutorial

and to Nadege

Moments in Time

for putting me on to it!

I'm looking forward to doing more.  It seems to be a good way to combine photography with calligraphy and some ancient wisdom.

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