Pictures: second half of June

[icepixie]

Something blue, the name of which I forget:




Rudbeckia, aka Black-Eyed Susans:










I don't know the name of this one either, though I imagine it's part of the Asteraceae family. I think it's nifty how much it looks like a silk flower:






Some kind of purply-green foliage:




My mother has set up these birdcages and filled them with twinkle lights. One of the tea roses has grown into one of them.




This is called a stargazer lily. Perhaps more accurately known as the outdoor-lighting-gazer lily? It's pretty and it smells really nice, anyway.






Dragonfly, unfortunately perched on a particularly unattractive dead rose flower.




I like this one because the perspective allows the trees to just dominate the man-made objects in the picture, from the shed to the potted plants. These are hackberries (aka weeds with aspirations), and probably 100 years old.




Attractive clouds at sunset. In the third one, the silhouette is of the mimosa tree, which I still haven't gotten a decent picture of. Maybe when the fluffballs fall off, I can get a close-up of one of them.










Cricket has decided she likes my room. God knows why.

Comments

[celamity]

Yay flowerpics!

(I really should get around to posting some of my own one of these days...)

And that is such an adorable picture of the dog :)

[icepixie]

Thank you! :)

[rensong.livejournal.com]

Pretty! Really loved the tea-rose-bird-cage-twinkle-lights shot. And the dragonfly cause I heart dragonflies like woah.

[icepixie]

Thanks! I think the concept of the rose growing into the birdcage is more attractive than the actual picture; the angle is all wrong to get a decent shot of it. Oh, well.

[serendipityxxi.livejournal.com]

I love those shots of the clouds! They're gorgeous! :)

Cricket looks very comfy there :)

[icepixie]

Thank you!

Cricket would probably prefer I give her more comforter to lay on, but she always smells terrible, so no way am I encouraging this. :D

[pezprez.livejournal.com]

I need to seriously get out and learn the names of flowers. I knew black-eyed Susans at least.

LOVE the cloud shots! We rarely get good clouds out here, though when we do they can be really beautiful.

RE: Cricket pic -- eeep! So cute!

[icepixie]

I need to seriously get out and learn the names of flowers.

I'd offer you my resources, except they generally consist of, "Hey, Mom, what is that thing?" Actually, one thing you could do is go to a botanical garden and take pictures of the plants with their plaques in view.

LOVE the cloud shots! We rarely get good clouds out here, though when we do they can be really beautiful.

Thanks! Really, no good clouds? I would think between the smog and the sea, you'd have lots.

[pezprez.livejournal.com]

no good clouds...

You might think that but instead we usually just get a general gray haze over everything that doesn't really have a shape to it. It's usually either completely clear, hazy/smoggy, or overcast.

But occasionally we do get puffy clouds, especially east, over the mountains, and they can be quite beautiful. Just, not as often as you folks with your storm systems and tempermental weather patterns.