Close Please enter your Username and Password
Reset Password
If you've forgotten your password, you can enter your email address below. An email will then be sent with a link to set up a new password.
Cancel
Reset Link Sent
Password reset link sent to
Check your email and enter the confirmation code:
Don't see the email?
  • Resend Confirmation Link
  • Start Over
Close
If you have any questions, please contact Customer Service


spiritwoman45
22314 posts
3/1/2015 9:17 pm
Seasonal Changes

Some will remember the pictures I posted last fall of the field of tumble weeds.

It's late winter now and the field is completely different. Mature grasses are the major vegetation now. In the past couple of weeks the lupin began blooming. This is a common wild flower here in CA. However I remember my mother in MA going to great extent to grow them in her flower beds.

Today I took a stroll across the field, got a few pictures of the lupin and some other yellow daisy type wild flowers that were also blooming. I picked a bunch remembering how, as a , I would spend most of the month of May crusing the fields and woods gathering wild flowers. There is a much more limited variety here but it's a small price to pay for not having snow and cold.



Spiritwoman ^i^


shuel2002 65F
5537 posts
3/1/2015 10:11 pm

Beautiful flowers, Spirit. Thanks so much for putting up these pictures.

Elaine Shuel


lilium6 74F
4498 posts
3/2/2015 1:25 am

How much pleasure you must have had idly strolling through fields of yellow wildflowers and blue lupins - lovely pictures :- )


Hawkslayer 88M
13297 posts
3/2/2015 4:41 am

Lovely pictures, I really like Lupins, beautiful flowers.

Alfie...


It only takes a drop of ink to make a million people think. There are many stories.


spiritwoman45

3/2/2015 10:10 am

    Quoting  :

I'd be willing to look out the window at snow but I do have my limits. Kind of like married men - look but don't touch.

I'm not familiar with the cone flowers by will check them out. They are likely something recognize but do not know the name. They sound about as invasive as the catnip I planted a couple of years ago.


Spiritwoman ^i^


spiritwoman45

3/2/2015 10:16 am

    Quoting lulugravy:
    Gorgeous......I love lupin.......especially fields of wild blue lupin. The Department of Highways in BC plants them on newly made banks along highways and roads........they just scatter a lot of seed.....apparently they have these extensive, deep, strong root systems that hold the soil and stops it from eroding. They can reach underground water so they thrive on the dry banks.......They light up the roadsides with blueness......
I did not know about the root system but that explains why they grow so well here. Although we have had near normal rain fall right here there are many years when we do not have much. Here they bloom only in the late winter months when we do have rain.

Spiritwoman ^i^


spiritwoman45

3/2/2015 10:18 am

    Quoting shuel2002:
    Beautiful flowers, Spirit. Thanks so much for putting up these pictures.
You are welcome. Thought I'd share a bit of spring with those who have stark winter scenery. Spring is like margaritaville. Always spring somewhere.

Spiritwoman ^i^


spiritwoman45

3/2/2015 10:20 am

    Quoting  :

Me too. The abundance and varieties of wild flowers are one of the few things I miss about the cooler cooler climates.

Spiritwoman ^i^


spiritwoman45

3/2/2015 10:22 am

    Quoting lilium6:
    How much pleasure you must have had idly strolling through fields of yellow wildflowers and blue lupins - lovely pictures :- )
I did. Open places to stroll in nature is one of the things I like most about living out here. The 45 min. drive each way to the gym that I will need to do later today is what I don't like most.

Spiritwoman ^i^


spiritwoman45

3/2/2015 10:23 am

    Quoting Hawkslayer:
    Lovely pictures, I really like Lupins, beautiful flowers.

    Alfie...
Thank you.

Spiritwoman ^i^


GLUMO 88F
9730 posts
3/2/2015 10:26 am

Hi Spirit!
You make me remember how much I enjoyed viewing fields of wildflowers in my youth...



Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.(Khalil Gibran)


ltw222 75M
7793 posts
3/2/2015 6:51 pm


Lovely pictures, sw.

Lee


Live today as if it is your last
For tomorrow will soon be in the past


spiritwoman45

3/4/2015 11:24 pm

    Quoting GLUMO:
    Hi Spirit!
    You make me remember how much I enjoyed viewing fields of wildflowers in my youth...
Gathering wild flowered was one of my favorite things as a child and well into adulthood.

Spiritwoman ^i^