Summer Thyme!
Showing how tall the great burdock is! The roots are edible and are popular in Asian cuisine. And you can also see the need for edging the borders in this photo!
Shelly 25 Black Quinoa
Close-up (of love-in-a-mist/Nigella)
Picking a dandelion (from left are purple asters, wild strawberries and rue)
Garlic Scape
Iridescent wings
Rue
The yellow wasp matches the “Herb of Grace” (Rue)
Kulli Black Incan Corn
Kulli Black Incan Corn foliage close-up
Another close-up
Bambi!
Spy Garden Sky
Baby in the garden
Ready to…
Swing!
Weeeee!
Floridian Fish (in Missouri!)
Orach
Playing “Family Fish”
Fish head
Face…
Paint
Painted shirt haha
Insect ID anyone? (on milkweed)
Marigold (there are many varieties in the garden)
Firepit
Heading off for a hike across the street
And over here we have…
this swing!
Weeeee!
Summer Brunch
Crayons
Catwalk
1/2 Pint
Fred…
Bird
Lewis & Clark…
& Seaman the dog, the only animal to complete the whole trip from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast and back with Lewis & Clark)
Another…
Statue (these are in St. Charles, MO)
Caboose
Happy Summer!
Oh! I have a favor to ask. Would you please send an email to support our friends who own some llamas and alpacas (as seen here on Spy Garden)? Shoot an email to twoerther@cityofwildwood.com and ask him (impeccable manners, please!) for the Wier’s llamas (and alpacas) to be allowed to stay in Wildwood.
If you would like you can also call 636.458.0440 to share your support of these gentle creatures being allowed to stay at their current abode. You can also sign a petition here:
Change. org: Allow Julie Wier to keep her llamas and alpaca’s on her property in Wildwood, MO
Here’s more info about these llamas (and alpacas!)…
Llama Drama in Wildwood (Fox 2 News)
Wier’s Llamas in the St. Louis Post Dispatch
Thanks for your support! Hope you all had a nice weekend!
Just read this…what happened at the planning board meeting last night about the llama farm?
Love your macro pics – so awesome. Esp. the corn leaf, nigella and hoverfly. Not sure about your beetle ID exactly, there are several milkweed beetles, but they do that to become toxic to predators, cool huh?
We’re in a bit of a cool, rainy spell here, 50 the past few days, so it is nice to see full summer in the Spy Garden!
Still in Wildwood Llama/Alpaca purgatory. At least the ball is still in the air…but today she had to drive the alpacas 67 miles to get them sheared, because to do it in Wildwood would require a special use permit (me smacking my forehead with my hand). But hopeful they can work it out. Thanks for the compliments: I enjoy macro photography and would like to get another lens and keep practicing! It has been cool here as well for the past few weeks. We started June off in the 50s too!
50s is so not normal for you… Your plants must be in shock!
They can’t keep their alpacas? Sigh… gorgeous garden shoot Ms Spy and cheers for uncovering more bureaucratic stupidity :(
Well hopefully they WILL be able to keep the llamas/alpacas ;)
I am hoping so as well. There are llamas/alpacas all over the place around here and no-one cares who does and doesn’t have them.
Lots going on! The bug ID is easier than you’d think: Milkweed Longhorn Beetle
(Tetraopes tetrophthalmus)
Thanks for the bug ID!!
I can smell the thyme!! Happy summer.
;) You too!
Lovely pictures! I miss you guys! Can’t wait to see you when my life settles down!
Look forward to catching up!!