Monday, July 03, 2006
Flowers and Berries
I don’t remember what the flowers in the second picture above are called, but their shade of purplish rose-red is one of my favorite colors. Once upon a time I had double impatiens in approximately the same shade and they were like Best Flowers Ever. My mother has to keep pulling up and tossing away some of the above plants because they spread like weeds. The lillies, in the top picture, are something we had in the yard the whole time I was growing up. Along with some tiger lillies.
Sadie tried a couple of these and seemed to like them. I ate a whole handful, but most of them were pretty sour, even when they appeared quite ripe. I was thinking they were thimbleberries, but apparently those are always red. Turns out they are black raspberries, which I always thought was a silly term people used for blackberries, which are different. At any rate, they were bearing impressively.