I Wish I Could Identify This Grass

But grass, I am told, is amazingly difficult to identify.

Blue-Eyed Grass

It's a good thing I let the lawn get so ragged, because it gave the blue-eyed grass time to bloom. This little iris-family wildflower looks so much like a clump of grass that it is impossible to see in the lawn when not in flower. To complicate matters, the plant itself is small, but the flower stems are long and oddly jointed. They flop over into the surrounding grass and bloom a foot from the parent plant. No doubt it is their seed dispersion strategy.

The others I have found usually sport two or three blossoms at once, but This one must have twenty flowers on it!

Some Beautiful Lawn

A lawn abloom with hawkweed, down the street from us.

He Posed for Me

Turtle in the Yard!

Our first turtle! It was just outside of Chris' veggie garden, pretending to be a rock. I would have walked right by it if not for the sharp eyes of my friend Faith. Our boys were enchanted.

Some Eye Candy from Broadmoor

Pollen Blizzard

Ther is so much pollen right now that you can see tracks through it on the sidewalks.