New schedule = late hours = sleeping later than normal. Which is why this post will be up later than usual. My fuzzy brain hasn’t had enough coffee yet. This will be a quick one, as I still have to write up notes for the actors from last night’s run-through.
Filed under the heading, “Things I haven’t be able to see at my house in 4 years,”
would be this bush in our front yard. Several years ago, I did some research and found out its name. I forgot it. It has delicate white blooms every spring. Aren’t they lovely?
And on the other side of the yard, I discovered these:
I suppose they would be classified as weeds, but I ask you, would you cut down these sweet yellow blossoms? (Josje tells me they are Buttercups. Ah!) I couldn’t. So I made the decision not to mow that part of the yard. It ended up being a non-decision, since I can’t get the mower to start, but still…
Here’s a close-up of the sweet yellow flower:
By the way, when I was taking these photos, Don (having just got up) looked out the window and saw me sprawled on the ground on the far side of the yard. He said he couldn’t imagine what the heck I was doing. Communing with the ground?
Doesn’t he realize the lengths to which we will go to get a good shot?
This was rather like the situation I wrote about in this post. You might get a kick out of it.
Have a good Thursday.
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Lovely yellow flowers. Looks like some kind of buttercup, and no, I wouldn’t mow them down! I have a few flowers that have popped up in my yard and in my empty flower pot. Must be the birds or an invisible Johnny Appleseed/Flower Bringer :)
How funny, Claudia! I wonder if he thought you were injured? No, just a flower child communing with the earth. No, I could not cut that down.
Brenda
I’m not sure of the bush, but if it has really nasty thorns on it, it could be a Pyracantha. In autumn it has beautiful bright berries.
Or it could also be some sort of Viburnum.
The yellow flower is a buttercup. Don’t worry about cutting them down with the mower, you know the thing with weeds, you can’t get rid of them even if you tried ;-)
I could just see you on the ground. Too funny. I would never dream of mowing those down. Too pretty.
I do it too! Great shots!
Well, thank goodness Don didn’t dial 9-1-1 when he saw you sprawled on the ground. (How would you have explained that to the EMTs?? HAH) We used to hold buttercups under our chins and the other person would say, “Do you like butter? Let me see. If you like butter, then you like me.” And if there was a faint yellow color under your chin then that was the answer! (Of course when the sunlight hit the buttercup the right way, there was ALWAYS a yellow tinge on your skin, but we didn’t know that as children.) Maybe that white bush is Mock Orange?
I think your white bush is called a Bridal Veil or Bridal wreath, I forget which.
It is in the spirea family.
My grandma used to have a whole row along her garage.
I have about three. My lab will walk along it and he will have little white petals all over his back. :)
What a great post! The snow angel story is a keeper, I can hardly wait to share with my hubby. Thanks for the story, I needed a good laugh this am :)
I have those pretty little buttercups in my yard. I like them, along with a purple weed that grows abundantly. Heck, I even like the dandelions.
Were it not for “weeds” there would probably be nothing to hold the soil down! or nothing for the cows to eat. Speaking of cows, check my blog for a birth!
Love the buttercups photo – and all you went through to capture it!
Mary X
I don’t think we get Buttercups down here, because I can’t remember seeing any. However, we did have them when I was growing up and as kids we always held them under our chin. If the yellow was reflected back then the person liked butter. I suppose it all had to do with whether the sun was out or not. Ann
It’s not a good shot unless you get something dirty, that’s my motto. And if it means stepping in dirt, or kneeling on the grass,…..well.
Those are buttercups for sure, spreading, and they will take over one day. How about adding in some wildflower seed and calling it a naturescape?
Jen @ Muddy Boot Dreams
hello dear claudia!
sorry to be so out of touch! i am indulging in some blog visits between writing and the boys coming home.
happy to have popped over to see your delightful meadow of buttercups!
i hope all is well and happy!
xo
elyse
I would have a hard time mowing those sweet buttercups too!
Its funny to picture your husband peeking out the window and wondering what you were doing.
Blessings, Joanne
I love buttercups. I wonder how many bouquets of those my mother was given. They have nice long stems that are easily clenched in grubby little fists.
We used to have spirea in front of our house. They turned red in the fall.
I understand what lengths one will go to in order to get the perfect shot!
I wouldn’t have mowed it either. It’s green and there are flowers… what more would one want to look at?!
I LOVE THE YELLOW FLOWERS….AND YOUR BUSH……. I HAVE SOMETHING SIMILAR IN PINK FLOWERS MAYBE A WHITE BUSH HERE AND THERE……THEY GROW WILD…
THEY ARE CALLED LAUREL…..MINE BLOOM ONLY IN MAY AND JUNE…..THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL……TAKE CARE…..RIZZI
I LOVE THE YELLOW FLOWERS….AND YOUR BUSH……. I HAVE SOMETHING SIMILAR IN PINK FLOWERS MAYBE A WHITE BUSH HERE AND THERE……THEY GROW WILD…
THEY ARE CALLED LAUREL…..MINE BLOOM ONLY IN MAY AND JUNE…..THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL……TAKE CARE…..RIZZI
I love buttercups. When we were kids we held them under our chins to see how much we liked butter. I just posted about it on someone else’s blog. There was a little rhyme that went with it…something like. Chin up- Buttercup…Do I love you? Yes! How much? And the more yellow you saw under your chin the more you liked butter. Mine must have lit up my whole head! lol
I hope you had a great day-xo Diana
I got a chuckle out of this one! I wouldn’t mow down those pretty buttercups either.
Buttercups are lovely, but you won’t like it when the runners (which grow underground) set up housekeeping in your flower beds. They are almost impossible to get rid of! Watch them carefully or they will take over your yard!