The Challenge View - June

This is from the quote:

June brings tulips, lilies, roses,
fills the children's hand with posies.

I no longer have roses in my garden and my lillies have already lost their bloom. I don't have posies or children to hold them either, sorry LOL! So here are some pictures I took of some of the flowers we do have blooming right now in our yard and some of our neighbors. Oh, there is one of a momma duck and her baby. Usually there are a lot of ducklings but this is the only one we have seen this year. They wouldn't let us get very close and I didn't want to scare them so it is not a great picture even though I tried to zoom in on them.

The left middle flowers are bleeding hearts. We took a cutting of this plant from my Mom's yard before she came to live with us. When we moved to where we are now, we couldn't dig up the whole plant so we took another cutting and planted it here. It dies back every winter but then comes back. I love watching it grow because it was part of my Mom's love for plants. She had such a green thumb! The top and bottom right are of roses from a neighbor's yard but we have been having so much rain lately it is beating the poor flowers to death. The rose below is much better. It came from a friend's yard. When we lived in Pennsylvania I had a yellow rose bush that was absolutely beautiful. It was called a Gina Lollobrigida after the actress. It had the most wonderful smell and the flowers were huge. Alas, when you move, you can't dig your yard up and move it with you. LOL!

Since my normal view is of Henry, here is a picture of him after he had spaghetti for dinner Friday night. You can see he thoroughly enjoyed it!

That does it for me today. I hope everyone is happy and healthy! xxxx