prairie point

First of all let me say that I have no idea what this is, but I’ll try to find out. It grows on a multi-branch shrub that seems to like to be close to the water. It looks like some kind of Christmas ornament. If you know what it is let […]

We have company coming in for the long weekend. Mike and family are driving down from the Kansas City suburbs. Like many others this holiday, we expect to spend a lot of time outside grilling burgers.
We will go to the lake, which they haven’t seen before. I am always interested to see the reaction […]

This is the kind of lantana I remember from my Mom’s garden.  It was a big, stinky bush on the south side of the house where it got full sun.  I remember the smell more than anything because it always seemed like my baseball would wind up underneath it.  They call this plant lantana horrida […]

With unknown grass and an unknown type of insect.

Here is another flower I haven’t posted before. The foliage looks weedy and ugly to most people’s taste, but there is no denying that the flower is a beauty.