PHOTOS

Attempting to add a photo here from the other day

when I was taking pictures of the great cloud displays

we had. My popup blockers (2) were causing trouble

and I could not load anything onto my space. I

finally gave up and wrote for help. I got prompt

help and I am now able to enter pictures on here

directly. ABOUT TIME!!

I took a trip out of the city to the country to see

how the vegetable markets were coming along.

They are pitiful. It has been so dry here that ,nothing

that is not irrigated, is growing at all. Here it is the middle

of JULY and no tomatoes, or anything. The corn is

high in some places but not nearly what it should be.

This means that we will be getting all the vegetable late

in the season, if at all. Not usual for us to still be getting

tomatoes when the frost comes to kill them off. So

Sad. I hope we get some rain soon to help them along.

I miss tomatoes from the markets. The grocery stores

have them..but they never taste the same.

 

DAISIES!!

  

 Daisies are a part of my family from way way back. My great

grandmother loved them and had many big plantings of them

in her yard in Tennessee. My grandmother had many in her

yard too in Ca. They were easy to grow in the heat there and

always thrived no matter how hot or dry it got . My sister used daisies

as the flower theme in her wedding..on the dress, the cake, 

she carried them and they were on the invitations.  

In finding pictures of daisies I found that there are so many

different types of daisies.. The one in the background here is called

the SHASTA…They are the white daisy which came from England.

The anglo-saxons called it the "daes eage" or "days eye" because it opened

and closed with the sun. African daisies are the ones that come

in colors of pink, purple, blue,yellow, even some red. Some have

darker centers and some yellow centers. The origin is South Africa.

I have seen the daisies in stores and wondered if they were all

in the same family with chrysanthemums. No, they appear similar

but are not.

Did you know that they also can be eaten?  King Henry VIII ate dishes

 of daisies to relieve himself from his stomach-ulcer pain; during this

time it was also believed that drinking crushed daisies steeped in wine,

in small doses over 15 days, would cure insanity. Well if it cured or

made him sicker we will never know.

  Daisies indicate innocence, purity,

and gentleness on behalf of both the giver and the receiver.

 

I think they are nice flowers to look at and pick and not too

fragrant and that suits me fine! 

 

Another great day here in Michigan.. I sure hope you are getting some great

weather for a change too.. HAVE A GREAT DAY!!