I Know Where the Yellow Went.

8-14-21 VERMONT: Until today, it has been a dry August. We got a sprinkle last night and another this morning, about 0.1 inch total. I had  replaced the soakers for the new maple trees and begun watering the new plantings. BTW that phlox went into the bed with the new echinacea. 

Socially we’ve been active—we had dinner at Shari and Dave’s and then we met Laura-Beth at Han in Hanover. Today my cousins, David and Ken, who I hadn’t seen in years, stopped by with their ladies on their way home from the Kingdom. Granddaughter Lucy and her friend Cory, who have been here most of the summer, go to NYC tomorrow, leaving us on our own. If the Delta Variant gets worse, we may all be back in isolation like last year.

We had another heat wave here with temps hitting 90° three days in a row. Today is better.

New blooms: ligularia dentata, liatris, lobelia, helenium, white-star clematis.    

Daisy. A classic flower name and shape. If you ask a child to draw a flower, this is what you get.

Ligularia dentata, similar format in yellow.

Black-eyed Susan, another variation in yellow.

Ox-eye. Another yellow flower in the same format.

Helenium, also sneezeweed, appears with the other yellow, daisy-like flowers of August.

Bands of green and yellow, form the bottom up--goldenrod, milkweed, maple. Reminds me of a Rothko.