Oh it has been wet. On our walks in the woods we have seen so many more mushrooms; some we have never spotted before! Like the Urnula (like urn or bowl) in two different colors, no less!

It is amazing what we can see when we stop and look.

We have grape hyacinths and wild plum trees blooming!

… a tree on a leaf. Nothing I had my hand in, this is all Mother Nature. Neat.

Pretty plant volunteers that is. We have a wondrous blanket of volunteer morning glories on the slope in the back yard. I love it! They may be doing so well because I’ve been dumping the lanolin water from scouring mohair on that slope. I’ve read the lanolin can gum up septic systems, so none of the water involved goes down the drain. No worries, the morning glories are all the more glorious for it!

Navi update: Still massaging her crop. It seems like the size is reducing. The poor chicken is so skinny underneath that huge crop. We gave her some nutridrench today just to keep her energy up. It is just too hot to put her in the isolation ward, though.

Egg update: Found an egg still warm in the pine shavings under to roost this morning. I turned on the light early to check on Navi and saw one of the chickens already on the ground. Perhaps she just couldn’t hold it anymore? My eldest thinks Sunrise and Pooh are laying because they are the two that are crouching in submission.

Summer is winding down, school is starting, and my brain is in a million places at once. So today’s post is a sunny sunflower that is holding on and blooming despite the heat and stress. I also like the fractals in sunflowers, and that “fractal” and “fractured” have the same root, but very different current connotations. I like that the flower isn’t perfect, but still beautiful.