April & May Showers Bring June Flowers

It has come down in buckets

the entire property looks as if we live in 

a rain forest and judging by the bugs, we must.

While the vegetable garden is suffering, 

the garden flowers are thriving.

At least those that are not being devoured by worms.

 I'll identify the plant below each photo.

Spiderwort.

Red Hot Poker Plants in early bloom,

soon to be festooned in brilliant oranges

and yellow.

Please send more lady bugs!

And something to eat all these worms.

The birds are not even bothering with the feeders

too much crawling protein to bother with seed.

Soon to be purple cone flowers.

These wild daisy (??) flowers are in bloom everywhere

joining the wild columbine, bee balm and lambs ear.

The honeysuckle will take your breath away.

As soon as you open the door you can smell the aroma everywhere.

This is the pretty side of our wet Spring.

The other side is the rivers of mud,

the flooding and another power outage as we 

battled Friday's storms (St Louis) plus

the cabbage worms that have now joined

in the leaf eating frenzy.

We may have lost another batch of eggs during 

the power outage.  I had been working the church 

rummage sale and got caught in the pavilion

straightening up the clothing displays as the

fast moving storms arrived.  When it let up

I sprang for the church hall which was fortunate

as a flaming ball of lightning hit the middle of 

the church parking lot shortly thereafter.

Needless to say, sales were light.

We lost power Friday night as we were a week into

incubation so we'll see what happens.