My house is right next to a blueberry barren and when the weather is good I wander up there and see the whole of the top of Penobscot Bay laid out before me, including Blue Hill across the bay. Commercially blueberries only fruit every second year and this is the off year so there are few blueberries to be seen but lately I've been paying attention to the tiny, quiet humble little flowers up there and today I photographed some of them as seen below - aren't they pretty - I don't even know the names of most of them - do you?
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| A snowflake in July? The lovely bobbing Queen Anne's Lace are here in full force - wafting around like spinning plates by the side of the roads and highways - they have a lovely old fashioned fragrance that reminds me of Mimosa. |
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| Is this Purple Vetch? |
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| A glowing Black Eyed Susan |
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| A teeny tiny daisy that grows about 3.5 feet tall and smells so deliciously of light lemon |
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| A type of Spirea perhaps? |
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| What are these little bell like flowers? |
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| Good old Black Eyed Susan's against the faraway hills. |
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| Queen Anne's lace in the making - each 'bud' has one large leaf to the side. |
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| A real close up of the Queen Anne's Lace - again very wintery I think |
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| I don't know which kind of flower this used to be but the basket weave in the centre there is near perfect |
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| And my fave - the lovely little clover - awww!! |
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| On the way back down I did espy a few blueberries nestling in the leaves - I think the fox, coyote, turkey and deer may get to enjoy them. |
August is nearly here - what delight should I make for my next recipe - it should be something with blueberries methinks!!
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