Visit to Mexico 1: Flowers

Some lovely flowers from the Lake Chapala region of Mexico, where Jim and I are staying:

Bouganvillia (you see it everywhere here)

Bouganvillia close up

unknown (isn't it lovely, though?)

Hibiscus

flower of a tree (I don't know its name)

Bird of Paradise

a flowering vine

More Flowers in our Garden

Ornamental Thistle with Bumblebee

"Little Rainbow" daylily

"Little Rainbow" daylilies

Double "wild" daylily (H. fulva)

Yellow daylily, variety unknown

Yellow and orange daylily, variety unknown

Pink daylily, variety unknown

Our Garden #1

Here are some pictures from our garden that I took about two weeks ago.
(June 7, 2008)

Solomon's plume

Pink peony

Volunteer violas and dill

Volunteer daisies

Volunteer "Magenta Spreen" lambsquarters
original seed from Seeds of Change

Home-grown garlic scapes


Here are more from today, June 23, 2007.

An orange lily

"Stella d'Oro" daylily

Red blanketflower

"Happy Returns" daylily

Part of our first real crop of sour cherries, not yet ripe

A "baby" apple (it's a little bigger than a golf ball right now)