More Rain!

This is the rain I got last weekend (Thursday thru 7/4/21)

This is what I got 7/8 - 7/9 (little of that came from hurricane Elsa)

Most of the rains weren't heavy so the ground soaked in almost all of it. It finally hit saturation point on 7/9 and I started to get puddles in the back yard where in a normal year, that much rain would have given me a small stream. The puddles were gone yesterday. There is also ponding at the drainage area between the shrub garden on the north side and the apartment building. That ponding is still there (or was yesterday afternoon).

I mowed both yards last Monday (7/5). Even with the high humidity and 5.5" of recent rain, the neighbor's yard dried out enough I could mow yesterday. I'll need to mow what I can of my yard today - I won't be able to do the drainage area, and right now it is a maybe over on the swamp side* area.

All that moisture has been good for some of the flowers that appear this time of year.

A yellow day lily that has no name because I didn't plant it. It just appeared 3 or 4 years ago within the line of common orange day lilies in the area between the front door steps and the garage. The orange day lilies did not have a good showing this year as this is not a garden that I watered.

This day lily has no name because I either lost the tag when I planted it in the driveway garden, or it was given to me by someone else

My Funny Valentine in the roadside garden

This has no name but I call it "Molly's" or Midwinter's" day lily because I got it from a gal on the FHC forum (real name / forum name). This is planted next to the front steps on the southwest corner.

Echinacea

Black Eyed Suzies

A funky fungus that has grown on a landscape timber in the last week

Mystery flower. Several of these showed up at the far corner of the roadside garden - outside the garden but next to the stones. I certainly didn't plant it and this is the first year it has shown up. Someone on the FHC forum identified it as a Tall Bell Flower and that certainly looks like what it is. A couple more are growing next to the neighbor's shed that is sitting right at the property line (the pin is literally at one corner of the shed).

Between mowing yards on 7/5, I cooled of by reading in the sitting area. This squirrel was not happy with me (I had to lighten the picture quite a bit for the squirrel to show against the bark)

Picture I took yesterday

This is a bulb that the dang squirrels or chipmunks have dug up out of the roadside garden. I only plant bulbs that supposedly they don't like and won't bother. That is either a daffodil or a hyacinth (most likely daffodil).

*The swamp is no longer a swamp but has been cleared and filled in with a massive amount of sand and rip rap. But I don't want to call it the vacant lot since I'm sure someone will build, or he'll put up a trailer soon and sell it.

Comments

[Cop Car]

I looked at all of the pretty pictures before going for my walk; but, decided my commenting could wait. (It was in the high 60s and I didn't want to give it a chance to get into the 70s!)

Each/all of the unnamed daylilies are gorgeous. I really like the butter-with-cream-colored daylilies. Someone up on Madison has a bunch of them bloom each year. Tell your squirrels to come get me some - lol.

We always had "black-eyed" Susans growing in cow pastures WIWAK. I had to look it up, just now, to assure that "black-eyed" Susans are the same species as what I planted a few years ago and were labeled "brown-eyed" Susans. I like 'em, by either name.

Good luck on your mowing. We were told that we might receive .25" - 1" of rain, yesterday. We didn't quite make it (0.02"), so I shall be going out to water our young trees, shortly.

[bogie]

Was able to mow the swamp side yesterday. Even thought pretty muddy underneath, it was still firm enough to do the deed. More rain coming down now (4:00 am on Monday), and rain expected much of the week.

[Cop Car]

Let's hope that you get the sort of rain that does you some good rather than the kind that washes you out. Glad you were able to mow the swamp.

I probably have West Nile virus, now - lol. Just got in from my walk during which I received my first mosquito bite of the season - on my hand of all places. It was on the fleshy part of the back of my left hand (the one that doesn't swing because it is holding the bag into which I stuff trash) between thumb & pointy finger (but close to wrist). At first, I thought I had scratched my hand while stuffing something into the sack. Eventually, I looked down to find the blood-sucker gorging herself. I slapped at it with the back of my right hand but don't have any idea whether she flew away or fell away dead. I suspect the former since no blood was left on my hand. Aaargh! I hadn't sprayed with "Off!" this morning, but don't normally spray my hands, anyway.

[bogie]

As long as you didn't catch malaria you should be good - LOL.

[Cop Car]

Mostly, I catch "too darned hot" on my walks.