canon rebel revisited

We live in a culture where everything is demanding our attention and where restful attention to any one thing is counter-cultural and out of sync with most of our habits.   ~unknown

On my closet shelf rested my Canon EOS Rebel, and I was ready to pick it up for photos once again in place of my smartphone.

 This was last week.  Nothing like living in the past😊... but last week was full and last week was so lovely.

Two springs ago I was fortunate enough to be in Louisville when the local Iris Society was having an iris bulb sale. I was able to get some bulbs of this beauty.

Nigella damascena, or love-in-a-mist as I prefer to call it, is bursting forth everywhere throughout my gardening areas. I love the effect it creates, especially by the back step. This one is white, but I also have periwinkle blue.

On Friday of last week the Precepts study of Matthew was completed, thus the ladies came for lunch as is the habit we have established. Since eggs are in abundance right now I made two quiches and served this with a seven-layer salad alongside a cucumber/onion salad. Dessert  was baked bananas served warm over vanilla ice cream with a crisp butter cookie on the side. Here is the recipe. Truly, if you like bananas it is the most easy, yet elegant dessert, to serve at any time or season.

And this is this week, thus far...

Light purple irises at Good Drop Ridge...

Immediately after my walk last evening I came up the ridge and the sun was in the west shining though the delicate petals creating  magical shadows all their own.

And I also observed the sunlight scattering through the colored- glass of the hummingbird feeder.

The white peonies are just opening and the pink ones are on the verge.  If you grow peonies you have certainly seen ants crawling on the flowers. These flowers provide food for the ants and in turn the ants protect the blossoms from other insects that would feed on the flowers.

Myrtle whose green eyes I was trying so hard to capture, simultaneous brightness and warmth are the green eyes of a feline. She was afraid of the camera so I was unable to get a good photo.

Our garlic bed through the wire fence. Without fencing around our vegetable gardens we would be compromised terribly by the wildlife, and the chickens as I do let them out to free-range for several hours in the later part of the day. As it is some critter got into our potato bed and ate half the planted  potatoes...it was fenced, we suspect a raccoon as the culprit.