Flowers at the Ponderosa (pic heavy)

[M. R. Byrd]

It was a little breezy this afternoon, but on the way back to headquarters from the field I snapped pictures of blooms.

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[M. R. Byrd]

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[M. R. Byrd]

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[M. R. Byrd]

That's it folks, that's what's blooming at the Ponderosa today, plus pics of bur oak acorns and sawtooth oak acorn.

 

[BleuBijou]

Thanks Maynard!!!:10sign::coolpics:

 

[Prairie Drifter]

You've done your rain dance! Put yer clothes on and git back in the house!!! Nice pics Maynard! Great variety and they are purty! Spect you had some beneficial insects stuck to your jeans coming back! Probably also had a few burd calls ringing in your ears! Glad to see it!

 

[M. R. Byrd]

Thanks Maynard!!!:10sign::coolpics:

I thought of you when I took the composite picture of what the birds at the Ponderosa see above them. Hard to see it all in that pic, but there is yellow prairie coneflower, yellow sweet clover, white clover, common sunflower, maximilian sunflower, Illinois bundle flower and sideoats grama.

 

[Prairie Drifter]

You forgot to mention Downy Brome! Biased ? It would have been a nice day to visit the Ponderosa! Trapped inside most of the day. Did go on a goose chase looking for a buck reportedly stuck in the fence. Also ran a vehicle to Pratt for a starter. Also see Japanese Brome and maybe Little Barley!

 

[M. R. Byrd]

You've done your rain dance! Put yer clothes on and git back in the house!!! Nice pics Maynard! Great variety and they are purty! Spect you had some beneficial insects stuck to your jeans coming back! Probably also had a few burd calls ringing in your ears! Glad to see it!

This guy was really noisy. The guy on the other side the road was too, but never showed himself.

 

[Prairie Drifter]

I did see a brood of turkey poults dancing with the crows in the drive this week. Been hearing some birds in the field. Need to quit working so hard and go enjoy the fruits of my labors more I guess! End of year, helping out the boss, keeping 2 men working, dodging the heat, and preparing for the holiday has kept things backed up. Glad to hear you were thinking of me. Do some of that the next time you're passing this way, and I'll put the coffee on!

 

[M. R. Byrd]

Took this picture yesterday evening. This guy was sure noisy. I was trying to get a good picture of him with his neck stretched out calling but the angle was never right. There was several answering including one in another tree about thirty feet away. Never could see that bird. These are the headquarter birds and they serenade us during lunch. Pretty music to my ears.

 

[duckn66]

Very nice sir. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Bilbo Baggins]

Maynard, thanks for the great pics

 

[BleuBijou]

I thought of you when I took the composite picture of what the birds at the Ponderosa see above them. Hard to see it all in that pic, but there is yellow prairie coneflower, yellow sweet clover, white clover, common sunflower, maximilian sunflower, Illinois bundle flower and sideoats grama.

Absolutely Love the pic's!! Heaven!!!:10sign:

 

[Jubilee]

Sure is colorful this time of year when there is plenty of water to go around. Hope things don't get too hot too quick:thumbsup:

 

[bknight]

Nice to see the green color along with the beauty of the flowers blooming. The ponderosa is being renewed in body and our spirits are being lifted along with you!

 

[M. R. Byrd]

It is dry at the moment. The May rains produced excellent growth and now the dry spell is causing a gray out of the abundant green vegetation, but it is so much better than the last few years. And today was cool. Don't know what the high was but now at midnight it is 57 degrees. Just had pictures of the snow banks at Buena Vista, Colorado and they were only a degree cooler.

 

[brittboy]

I think you slipped over to Colorado for all but one of those pics bastard cabbage and wheat is all you got over there in Kansas. Isn't it nice to have a beautiful spring for a change.

 

[westksbowhunter]

32.02 inches of rain in 2015 so far in Cherokee County.

 

[M. R. Byrd]

That is a lot of rain, even for SE Kansas. Seems like one year while we were living in Frontenac the annual was up around 50". Whatever it was it was huge for an old western Kansas dirt farmer.