Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you....

Happy Birthday dear John, Happy Birthday to you!

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day to our dads and to my wonderful husband!

Blooming in the Yard

We've got perennials blooming all over the yard. Most of them we haven't a clue as to what they are. Luckily, there are books and web sites and moms to help identify them. Still, some remain lovely mysteries. And there are even more getting ready to bloom.

In spring, we thought most were weeds and were within a lazy Sunday of ripping them out. But we figured we should give it a season to identify what's weed and what's not. Of course, by next spring, we'll have forgotten it all.

Here are some:

Lilac













Lots of these little flowers in various colors around. (Dianthus?)













Bleeding Heart in foreground and nameless blue flowers in back. (I think it's wild blue phlox.)













Yellow Loosestrife and white flowers that grow like weeds













Monkshood?

















Clematis (Kilian Donahue?)













My mother told me the name of this. Promptly forgotten. (Amy remembered: Honeysuckle Vine.)

















More of the little flowers. This time in pink.













Centaurea Montana. This needs a better name. Blue Spider or something like that.

















More Yellow Loosestrife













And more small flowers, now in red

















Daylily. I think these have specific variety names. We'll call this one "Orange."













Peony