Flowers

The sun has finally gone behind the clouds and the liquid held within has at last fallen to the ground and thus flowers are born. We have been so very dry. Its kinda funny seeing as how one of my more recent posts had videos of a tropical down pour. Florida is a strange place it needs to rain a lot because of the sandy soil, it does not hold moisture and so when it does not rain it can quickly turn into a desert.

Our yard was shriveling up and basically it began to look like the foothills of Davis County in August in our yard. (No offence to all you Utahans I just want you to have a visual so you could appreciate what I'm talking about LOL.) the rain began to fall last week the nice kind of rain that falls softly and then sinks into the ground nurturing the roots and bringing the green out.

William went out and took some fabulous photos of some of the flowers we have growing in our yard. I have always loved flowers and I don’t think the world could have too many of them. I’m not picky they can be small, tall, wild, cultivated, wonderfully scented, or stinky. I wish there were many more.

I remember going up into the Uintah Mountains in the spring and seeing the meadows full of color the entire ground was covered with millions of flowers of all kinds. It was like I was in a painting. I could have just sat there all day and watched the soft breeze blowing across the field causing the flowers to dance gracefully like some giant ballet; The bees and butterflies moving gracefully from bloom to bloom it is so majestic. I love this world so much beauty.

We call these firework flowers. it is some kind of Orchid.

This is a Passion flower. There are two kinds of butterflies that lay there eggs on this vine, when we get some caterpillars we will take some photos of what they look like. One of the butterflies that lay eggs on this vine we posted a photo of before it is brown with a yellow strip on its wing.

This is one of our many wild pets that have the run of our backyard.

As more flowers bloom we will add them so you can see how wonderful it is in Florida. and Then all of you will want to come and live by us. Or at least come and stay a day or two. We miss you all and think of you often.