sunday morning...(updated with pictures!)

I am sitting at the dining table, looking out the window as the early morning sunshine begins to lighten the tops of trees. Brilliant clear day, with the sunlight back lighting trees at the edge of the woods, creating a peaceful panorama of mixed light and shade. Rays of bright sunlight streaming through the leafy canopy.

There are clumps of  naturalized, native, wildflower (invasive, unwanted, expansive, irritating, irremovable) lavender 'Chattahoochee Blue' phlox, eight to ten inches tall, blooming in the bed out on the north side of the house. And the spikey foxglove I started from seed and planted a couple of years ago, in white and purple. Man, I think those things, with the elongated bell shaped blooms, dotted and spotted interiors, are so neat. And now, several orangey-yellow blooms on tall lily stalks have opened ,(surprised the deer have not found that!) adding more color and eye-catching interest.

I wrote about planting more of the foxglove across the front of the house, up close, under the overhang. Most of them are either blooming, or, the more recently planted, still growing the spikes up about three feet tall, preparing to put on a show. Along with, literally, hundred of daisy blooms along the front edge of the bed, crowded together, beginning to lean and sag out onto the driveway. They were all upright as well-trained army recruits, but with rains and wind, they have begun to angle off, many with bent stems, beginning to tilt more like the soldiers who just received their first weekend off-base pass, and over-indulged with complete abandon of training.