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I am growing Princes Plume (Stanleya pinnata) and I had NO idea how the bees just love this plant. It is a gorgous addition to the garden too.
I have a lot of photos of this tiny wild flower on my photo stream and couldn't miss this year, although I have left it a bit late for the flowers to be in perfect condition, especially after yesterday's heavy rain.
Herb Robert is one of my favourite wild flowers, tiny but exquisite with pinkish mauve and silver colouring and a lovely satin sheen to the petals.
In European folk medicine, the plant was used as a remedy for nosebleeds and toothache. The unpleasant odour of freshly picked, crushed leaves is said to repel mosquitoes which gives it one of several common names, 'stinky bob'. The flower buds were thought to resemble a stork’s bill (another name, cranesbill), and this association suggested that the plant might enhance fertility. Outdoors, the plant was said to bring good luck, but if you took it indoors, death was sure to follow (hence the name 'death come quickly'). The association with death was enhanced by the name Robert, a folk name for a devilish sprite who liked to cause trouble for people, though I've read elsewhere that it was named after a monk, Robert, who liked to use it in his healing work. Interestingly, it can often be found growing on or near to the sites of old monasteries, which gives credence to this idea.
Both in England and abroad it was believed to be the plant of the house goblin, the German Knecht Ruprecht, and in England Robin Goodfellow. 16th Century mentions of this creature make him hairy, red-featured, sometimes wearing a red suit and carrying a candlestick so common qualities with the plant include colour, hairiness and candlestick beaks.
It is considered the vegetable counterpart to the Robin which can bring good luck if treated kindly or conversely terrible mishaps if killed or its nest destroyed.
Just having a snooze in a rare sunny spell.. It has been very wet this week
June 1st, the start of epic mountain hikes have begun!
Our cutest neighbor for sure!
Lovely peonies in a local garden. I think I'll have to try growing these.
There were several blackbird fledglings hopping about the garden one day this week - I took a shot of one taking a bath but this one of the adult male and a youngster on the fence is better.
Young blackbirds always make me smile as they look bigger than the adults with all their downy feathers.
125 pictures in 2025 (40) garden birds
I was about to change the decoration I have on our door when I noticed a nest with two little eggs and this little one… The new decor will wait…
I wasn't planning on photographing a mountain bike race, but here it is. lol. I had a blast!
These allium fireworks were impossible to get a decent photo of but I am so pleased that the bulbs came up and have flowered that it is my choice for this week's photo.
Whilst we were away we visited the Donkey Sanctuary
When it rains around here, which is not often, you go grab some droplet pics!
We've had so much rain the past weeks in the Poconos that a tree (that was not dead and still standing tall) fell on our driveway. We thankfully had some guy come and cut a few parts so that we could get out. They will come take care of it tomorrow. but this was kind of scary how a huge tree still very grounded could fall like this.
One of the largest and grandest houses of the 16th Century, Burghley is the extraordinary legacy of William Cecil, Lord High Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I.
William Cecil built Burghley House as a country home for the dynasty that he founded and as a demonstration of his wealth and power. Externally, it is largely as he left it. Within it has been transformed by his descendants and filled with an extraordinary collection of wonderful things.
Burghley remains a family home, occupied by a direct descendant of the Lord Treasurer, Miranda Rock, who leads a team devoted to the preservation of the House, its contents and the surrounding Estate for the enjoyment and education of all.
The tomb of William Cecil can be found in St Martin's Church, Stamford.
125 pictures in 2025 (69) ostentatious
it was World Donkey day on the 8th of may
I always love raindrops on plants as they bead up and magnify the plant below.
Eastern Collard Lizard - what a sight they were. There are a lot around me, but usually once it's wam enough for the lizards and snakes to be out, we head to cooler areas.