wildflowers...

Saw this in my ambling around today, thought I'd show it to y'all

This field also had a for sale sign, so I decided I'd better take a pic before somebody bought it and built a 7-11 on it.

Oh, and I'll be getting myself to the library pretty soon over the next few days... There's been another tire in my back alley rock garden... not so bad this time, but dang... 2 Mondays in a row... If you are so hung-over on Monday morning that you're having a hard time staying on the pavement, you may not be hungover as much as you're still drunk... I used to work in bars, I know about these things...

I have to go to the library to make sure that there aren't any regulations or city codes about what I can put there... My neighbor used to have a brick pillar in front of her house, and once, during one of our heavy drought, the ground shifted and the thing fell over and broke in half. Both halves are still in her back yard, and she said I could have them... I'm thinking I can mount one on each side of my driveway, plant a cactus or something in the middle of them. They'll look good, and they'll keep idgits out of my landscaping... I'm pretty sure that I can put them right on the alley if I want to, The wooden fences are certainly planted right on the edge, but 6 inches or a foot back would look better I'm sure.

All sorts of stuff...

When I'm working... I supposed to be chock full of all sorts of customer service skills...

And, I'm usually pretty good about it... I smile alot, I'm chock full of yes ma'ams and yes sirs, and I even laugh at tired one liners... but today for some reason I wasn't quite able to muster it up. I tried. I kept telling myself to just smile and get on with it... but I'm afraid all I was able to manage today was a semi-polite indifference.

We all have bad days I guess...

Part of the reason is that the summer heat is starting to hit right after 2 really wet weeks and it's humid out there... I felt like I was walking through soup. But I did manage to stop by the side of the road for some wildflower pics... I thought it might cheer me up a little. Didn't really work, but it was a nice break...

Here's some Indian Blanket, or Galliarda. It always amazes me when I see these in seed catalogs.

And the next two are Yucca filamentosa blooming in a field of Coreopsis...

I also stopped in a city park and saw a Duck and ducklings...

And when I got home, the Prickly Pear had it's first bloom open today... of course it was closing up by the time I got here, but you get the idea...

And really that's about it....

later!