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Standing in the back field, watching the boy run and play with the riding lawn mower. Already too hot for serious work outside. They're calling for 95 or hotter today, with a heat index around 100. Blech.

What's blooming today?

We're out of the spring bulb season, and into flowering perennials now.

* the last of the daffs -- N. jonquilla simplex, which is a late season miniature species, tiny and intensely fragrant
* baptisia 'Purple Smoke', spires of dusky bluish violet, with a purple iris just three ahades darker right next to it
* several iris in the dark red to purple range.
* a fabulous amber-colored iris, that I got from D last spring
* Iris pseudoacorus
* chives (lavender)
* cypress spurge (yellow)
* yellow and dark red snaps, yellow and purple violas, petunias in shades of pink, pink and red and white dianthus
* spiderwort in shades of purple
* white anemonellas
* dark bluish-purple ajuga
* 'Nearly Wild' rose
* strawberries!!!
* both amsonias (I've got a threadleaf form and a taller broadleaf form, both have wispy sky blue flowers)

Front yard:
* creeping vinca (blue)
* english bluebells (ok, one last spring bulb)

The wisteria, camassia, and lilacs are finished early, thanks to the heat.

Daylilies, wild prairies roses, 'Austrian Copper' rose, and daisies should be coming on soon.

It's so hot out....

...that the squirrels have stopped digging for maple seeds, and are draped limply over tree branches.