July 18, 2010

Flowers on Sunday & A Blisteringly Hot Weekend

After our earthquake on Friday, we went on to have a blazingly hot weekend, with temps never out of the 90s. The humidity was equal to that, so it mostly felt like you were walking around with a wet, hot blanket covering you. It makes me long for snow days again!02-06-10 018We went to the Farmers Market this morning where I picked up two huge bunches of sunflowers. This week, I chose the smaller ones, and have about 20+ stuffed into a vase, which is sitting atop my new shoe storage unit. flower 7-18 001One unusual plant I saw for sale at the market was a clematis. There’s a saying about growing clematis (clematii?)… First they sleep, then they creep, then they leap. flower 7-18 The first year they are planted, they barely do anything. The second year, they grow a bit, and then the third year, they grow like mad. We always had them climbing a trellis outside our back door at the house where I was raised

8 comments:

  1. Great minds think alike - Abbey posted pictures today of her "snow dreams". Beautiful sunflowers. Too hot - I barely left the apt. all weekend!

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  2. I love clematis - there is one in a section of the walled garden in Scotland that has the most heavenly scent. It is mostly white and has a tinge of pink. I expect it's in full bloom now.

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  3. Meg, I have a Clematis out front and it is deep purple. Love it. Sweltering in Kanasa City right now, getting even hotter I hear!

    Karena
    Art by Karena

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  4. Thank you for the snow photo, I needed it. At present in Palm Springs at 115 degrees the hottest spot in the USA. Give me 90 humid than 115 dry any day, I guess hot is hot.

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  5. Ah, the grass is always greener... gotta have the highs and lows of heat and cold too...!

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  6. Your image of winter reminds me of how I chose to cope while I sat at another lacrosse tournament in Germantown, MD in the hot, blistering sun- long discussion with friends of skiing, platform tennis, and Dubarry boots.
    I swear it made me feel less hot!

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  7. So hard to see a picture of snow and think it was ever here!
    xoxo
    SC

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  8. You had an earthquake?!?!

    Hot here too.. 103, but a dry heat.


    Haha...the word verification is "winesot"....what are they telling me?

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