Wonderful wildflowers at Ethel's Woods Forest Preserve this afternoon.
Clockwise from upper right: coneflower, teasel, false sunflower, rattlesnake master, ironweed, and a mass of monarda and more false sunflowers.
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I received notice that one of my quilts was accepted into the Wisconsin Quilt Expo!
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Some of this week's wildflowers and other flora:
Top: smooth false foxglove, chokecherry, sand cherry. Middle: few-leaf sunflower, limestone calamine (teeny flowers!), white flat-topped goldenrod (new one to me). Bottom: sky-blue aster, mountain mint (it does smell minty when it's crushed), whole leaf rosinweed.
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I ignored the sign and walked through the puddle on my heels.
Clockwise from left: coneflower + monarda, mullein, pinnate coneflower, nightshade, betony, primrose, swamp milkweekd. Center: American germander.
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Our friend Mary Lou invited me to harvest a second batch of rhubarb. Our only freezer ...
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It's a wildflower wonderland here in northeasternmost Illinois. We went to Ethel's Woods and Pine Dunes.
Compass plant, false white indigo, monada/bee balm, mountain mint. butterfly weed, show tick trefoil, rattlesnake master, pickerelweed, Culver's root.
Bumblebee on a purple coneflower and a flock of little yellow butterflies.
The Lake County Symphony Orchestra performed on Thursday evening. The tuba solo (Strauss's Happy Farmer) was fun.
Though we missed the fireworks at the park in Zion the neighborhood was a-poppin' with firecrackers until nearly midnight. The smell of the powder was heavy the next morning.
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Black raspberries were ripe at Lake Carina Forest Preserve on Friday afternoon. Lake Carina was a gravel pit that was quarried to build the tollway (I-94) in the late 1950's. That road and a high-voltage transmission line are the eastern boundary.
The lake and the stream that flows into it.
The Home Forum feature in this week's Christian Science monitor further identified the raspberries as black caps. I picked a handful and ...
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Nodding thistle, thistle bud, raspberries, beardtongue, wild white indigo, purple angelica, coneflower.
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I gave myself a birthday-month treat on Saturday. A guild in the next county had openings for a workshop with Jane Sassaman. (Thank you, Ann, for your encouragement!) My calendar was open and V was available to take care of Stevens.
Jane used her Moths and Moons pattern to teach us her applique technique ...
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Neighbor Mike worked on our refrigerator on Saturday. His diagnosis is that the relay that tells the condenser to cool needs to be replaced. He has a call in to the repairman. Meanwhile we are still 'camping' with two Igloo coolers holding produce and other food. (I don't want to tromp into Mike and Jen's garage multiple times a day to use their backup fridge where I have more food stored.)
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I got reacquainted with the bin of bright prints when I made the butterfly quilt (see last week's update ...
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