Here's what the hay fields look like right now:
The pink blooms are clover, and the purple ones are alfalfa (click the picture and it will enlarge so you can see better). Normally, we never see the purple alfalfa blossoms because Husband cuts the hay before they appear, but this year its been too wet so far to cut the hay fields.
The plant towering above is bladder campion, an opportunistic wildflower with a white bloom; they grow all the place on our farm and in the road ditches......they're more like a weed, I guess. Its scientific name is silene cucubalus. It has a "bladder", a calyx sac, resembling a tiny melon, which forms beneath its flower. Someday, maybe I can get a decent photo of that little oddity.
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SO WHY DO I NEED LUCK TODAY? I have to leave now and drive an hour to I-35 to meet my daughter and her big, goofy yellow lab, Izzy. Izzy is then riding home with me to spend a week while my daughter and her husband take a belated honeymoon to the Cozamel area. I'm taking the pickup since I'd rather not have Izzy in the Envoy, so WISH ME LUCK as I drive with a big dog there in the cab with me. Maybe this is a test to see if I'm ready to be a grandmother!!?? Just kidding, kids.
I hope to leave early and swing by Parkersburg to see the tornado-damaged part of town. The news reports are showing frantic sandbagging going on in Iowa City today in effort to save the University of Iowa campus and city power facilities from floodwaters. The crest isn't expected there until NEXT TUESDAY!!!! Yikes!
Enjoy your Saturday!!
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3 comments:
Good luck! Big goofy dogs make for difficult driving companions.
Perhaps Izzy will prove to be a good traveler, at least we will hope so. Tell us the tale when you return, and give us a photo of Izzy, too. I like big yellow labs, even if the only one I ever had (a teenaged dog) did eat the skirt-tail off my mama's favorite dress while it was blowing in the wind on the clothesline! Bad dog!
Sorry to hear about all the flooding out your way. I can tell you're driving around checking it out.
We see it on the news and I'm thinking of you immediately.
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