Wild flowers

I am still posting photos from July 19 when we are on the way to Edmonton from Valemont. These wild flowers were along the road into a capped oil or gas well. This is our coffee stop about an hour out of Hinton and just past Edson. This is the best collection of wild flowers I have seen on the whole trip. There are wood lilies, Indian paintbrush, daisies, red, purple, white and yellow clovers all in bloom here. There is water in the ditches.
On to John and Colleen's house arriving late afternoon. We have a yummy pork chop casserole for dinner. Colleen shows me around their home, where they have finished the renovations. We hear about the horrendous wind storm that Edmonton suffered yesterday and last night. There was quite a bit of property damage, but no injuries, as far as I know. We are off to our 'room' by about 11:00.

At home today, it is realy quite cool -- 16 and light rain. It seems I haven't accomplished much today, but have enjoyed the lazy day. I am having trouble getting more videos loaded to youtube and have no idea why. I especially want to load the one of Colleen and the Japanese bell from the next day's adventure in our trip.

Wild flowers

Not a flower but a lichen. They are always nice to have in the rock garden, though.
I do not know what this one is, but I believe it is one of our own indigenous rock plants.
These are a familiar site all year. I would like to get some of them growing in the grass strip along the front of my garden, where the crocuses grow. These could be blooming while the crocus leaves ripen to feed the bulbs. I cannot mow this area until the crocuses go dormant. Perhaps a few violets might look nice in here also.

These are a few of the plants found on the rocks and grass along the seawalk through Songhees. I was shooting for the Victoria Grid Project - a Flickr group. It was a very bright and sunny day. Since I was along the waterfront, I used my ND grad. filter to cut down the glare. I love that filter. It does wonders in keeping my photos from just washing out in all the light.

Friday - I felt like I accomplished a few things this day. I made a rhubarb and strawberry pie. Last year's rhubarb that I had frozen, and frozen strawberries. The pie is delicious. Pat rescued it from being incinerated as I had my head buried in my tax forms. Well, that wretched task is finished also. I really wish these tax forms were not so very convoluted. They are getting worse every year, it seems. We now have forms to attach to schedules that attach to the the main form.