California Summer Color: My Favorite Angel Face Rose... Day 168

Angel Face Roses have a heavy rose scent. That is what I believe a rose should be.

California Summer Color: Double Delight Rose... Day 167

Double Delight Rose.  Loved it that I caught a an ant on a petal.

Summer Color and Grandchildren... Day 166

Children are always attracted to small daisy like flowers.

Shaggy Fleabane

California Summer Color... Day 165

I have fallen into Flower Heaven.

This one flower defies my identification. I will find out eventually, if one of you can't identify it. My first thought was Rosa Foliosa, but can not find one that matches.  Hope you enjoy.  My granddaughter and I were stopped by it as we were walking down the road.

Summer Color Rudbeckia... Day 164

Rudbeckia 'Goldstrum'

This is a flower at the Houston LDS Temple.  The Temple grounds are always a wonderful respite in the summer.

Summer Time Color Texas Star Esperanza... Day 161

Can't believe this was sitting as a draft in my posts. Big sigh

Summer Color Coleus... Day 163

No flowers now except some straggly Salvia. No butterflies either.  

Summer Cloud Fun... Day 162

We stopped to take this picture. My grandson and I decided that it is a bird in a nest. What do you think?

This Time a True Rain... Day 160

I had Rain X on my windshield so I could leave the droplets.  It was a true rain this time.  Hoping for more of course.

Table Cloth Covered With Soot... from Yesterday... Day 159

See my blog on Joyous Tomorrows to here the story behind the ash and soot.

Summer Color Cora Vinca, Angelonia, and Strap Caladiums... Day 158

Summer Color Pentas and Angeloina... Day 157

I have run out of new CrapeMyrtles to capture.  I have a Twilight and a Burgandy cotton that should start blooming... Hoping before my granddaughter is born.  The short of it is I have pictures I took in Houston at the Houston Latter Day Saint Temple. Their gardens are to die for.

Red Pentas tucked in White and Purple Angeloina (these are called the summer snapdragon)  The tiger day lily in the back ground was the only one.

Summer Color... Rasberry Sundae CrapeMyrtle... Day 156

Summer Color Standard CrapeMyrtle... Day 155

Tuscarora CrapeMyrtle Used to be a number one seller.  It has a slight orangish tint. This is a street tree.

Summer Color CrapeMyrtle Deep Red... Day 154

This was at the entrance to the Houston LDS Temple. I picked up my grandsons there.  Probably a Red Rocket.

Summer Color CrapeMyrtle Pink... Day 153

Basham Pink CrapeMyrtle

Summer Color CrepeMyrtle Purple... Day 152

Probably a Catawba CrapeMyrtle.  The purple CrapeMyrtle's do not hold their color well.  It still is my favorite

Summer Color CrepeMyrtle White... Day 151

Natchez White CrapeMyrtle.  Beautiful cinnamon bark.

Southern Summer Color Series ...Day 150

It has begun, the crapemyrtles have begun to bloom their hearts out.  They offer the South a wonderful kaleidoscope of color. Sometimes it is even on the same tree.  For the next few days I will be posting the different colors along our city street.  You can choose what your favorite would be.  I raised these and knew all their different names, but now I have a hard time identifying the pinks and reds, so many of them.

This is probably a Tuskegee (knowing what they sell here).

Why I Forgot Day 149

Lo Sugar Cinnamon Applesauce

A Cherished Sight... Day 148

Trumpet Vine... Day 147

The Trumpet Vine is a native Texas vine.  You might find it growing anywhere. It loves our mailbox.

Campsis radicans

Typical Family History Center Day.... Day 146

Love it when the men research. They are so intense.

An old film reader/scanner.  Btw, this is the director and she made a great find on this film!

Figs the Promise of Jelly... Day 145

I didn't realize I had caught the rain drops... I was trying to show you every branch is covered with figs.  

 

 

 

Yummy fresh or made into preserves. 

There Really Was Rain... Day 144

I have been complaining about no rain... Well we did get some.

Eye to Eye... Day 143

Discussion.... "You are not a lap dog"  "Yeah right"

Bored and Hot.... Day 142

What do you do when you are HOT and Bored because it is too hot to go outside.  Snap a shot of the ceiling fan.  LOL

Last Day of Jr High. Moving up in the World... Day 141

Picked up grandson on his last day of Jr High School.  They grow so fast.

Fig Tree... Day 140

Celeste Fig Tree... sugary sweet.

Texas Wildflower, Firewheel.... Day 139

Texas Wildflower - 'Firewheel' Gaillardia