Flowers

 

 

(clicking imbiggens)

The top picture shows a yellow "weed" that is every bit as pretty as the flowers we paid for.

The big green plants in the bottom picture are sunflowers, ringed with four-o'clocks coming up underneath.  If you look closely, you'll see a birdfeeder in the middle of it all.

The sunflowers are planted for us by the birds, a fair exchange for the seeds they eat.

When I was a little boy I collected seeds from my grandfather's garden and planted them (with Mom's help) at my own home.  Several moves and more than fifty years later, these four-o'clocks are the latest generation of his flowers.

I still miss you, Grampy.