June Daily Weather Blooms abound!

51°~11am; windy, cloudy and light.
MySharona~any time you can come up, will be good. Sounds nice, gettng new furniture. The currants are a hedge along side the front of the house.
Marsue~we don't even have curtains on most of the windows (blocks the view); and don't use room-darkening at all. We've just become used to the light nights. It's just beautiful out with the unexplainable pure light; the birds sing and people/kids are out playing till way past kids' bedtimes.
Will the roses recover? Too bad, they look huge.
TF~those temps sound tough to take. Keep cool:))
Dyson~light and calm, a good combination.
kwanjin~hope the day goes well; take care.
Deb~you've accomplished a lot this morning~in the heat, no less. We had a fire on the deck, drank coffee and now are ready to face the windy day.
10 pm ~ view from the deck.

Great pics, guys! New pic with the butterfly, better one!

This is what we are calling "The Powerfull's Man Blood"

More poppies.

Closer look.

Pink one.

Blue carpet.

We are calling this "Martin's little dress".

Very pretty, Adina. Glad to see that your home is nearly finished, too.

Yes, Kiska, the roses should recover and hopefully they won't get blackspot again. We've had such a wet spring(but not lately) that it has been hard on several of my roses. I had to de-foliate 3 others, as well.
:o(( That's a beautiful view you have from your deck! It's hard for me to imagine having to have a fire this time of year. It's currently 91º here! LOL

Adina: great shot of the butterfly! Love all the wildflowers and such interesting names for them!

Woo! 90F on my shaded screen porch at 7pm.

Kiska, what an amazing 10pm view!
Deb

Not too hot yesterday but very hot today with heat indices above 100%

adinamiti-"Powerful Man's Blood" looks like it could be one of the newer fragrant Sweet Peas. I have a large container of them that are just starting to twine around the netting good. You show us so many beautiful flowers from your country.
DebinSC - Temps are down to 88 now on my front porch. Humidity is still up there ( we usually don't have it that high up north, here).

Beautiful flowers, Adina!

Van Nuys, California (Airport)
Updated: 4:51 PM PDT on June 07, 2008
79 °F / 26 °C
Clear
Humidity: 31%
Dew Point: 46 °F / 8 °C
Wind: 7 mph / 11 km/h / 3.1 m/s from the SE


We killed ourselves hiking again today. This time we went up to the Angeles National Forest. It is a mile high where we were, so there is some real forest there.

There is also a lot of chaparral but with a different distribution of plants than the chaparral down here.

Yuccas where in full bloom. There must have been thousands of them. This is the same species as we have down here but a different subspecies. This subspecies gets huge.

See?

The flower stalk is probably at least 5 inches in diameter.

WOW, I have never seen yucca that large.

That's the biggest yucca I have ever seen, Kelli! They certainly don't get that big around here---LOL. Nice shots of the chaparral and the Angeles National Forest.

86º at 8:18 p.m.

While we're on the subject of big things, this is a jeffrey pine. Anyone want to guess how old it is? I have no idea.

incense-cedar

Wow-talk about big trees, Kelli! Did they make you feel very small in nature's overall scheme of things? LOL I would have no idea about the age, either.

No, they didn't make me feel small, just fortunate to see them.

well, Sid i think you named this thread a little inaccurately for my weather. more like March winds, July heat, and August rainfall! only thing blooming in this hot wind is cactus!

Currently in Amarillo
82F (Feels like 82F) Sunrise: 06:32
Sunset: 20:59
Humidity: 44%
Visibility: 7.00 m

Partly Cloudy
Wind: SSE31gusting to 45 mph
Barometer: 29.78

tf

We are getting pounded w/ heat FAR above normal.
We've been in the low/mid 90's for almost a week.
The one break we had was yesterday... for our 4th ORVG RU .... it was low 80's an cloudy most of the day.

Today and Tomorow back in the 90's.
Most of the bad weather has just missed us..... but that could change rapidly..

Ric

7am; 46°~heavy clouds w/rain during the "night". No wind.
Kelli~beautiful hiking country; from the trees, to the yucca, very nice.
Ric~seems the weather has been up and down there for the spring; glad it was nice for yesterday's event.
TF~looks as if you've also a variety of weather.
This summer is much like those of years ago; cooler and later. Still no wild roses in bloom, either.
10pm ~ Robin in a treetop a few nights ago.

TF: It would appear that the entire Mid-West from North to South is having above average temps and lots of wind! How are the chickies doing?
Ric: glad you all had a good weather day for the ORVG round-up.

Today
Partly Cloudy / Wind
High 92°F
Precip 20%
Wind: SSW 18 mph (The 7th straight day for these winds)
Max. Humidity: 56%
UV Index: 10 Very High (See that! and on another portion of this very same page "they" said the UV index was moderate--a 3! Go figure!)
Sunrise: 5:54 AM CT
Sunset: 8:21 PM CT
Avg. High: 86°F
Record High: 96°F (1988)
Tonight:
Mostly Clear
Overnight Low 74°F
Precip 10%
Wind: S 10 mph
Max. Humidity: 69%
Avg. Low: 64°F
Record Low: 51°F (1977)


My first daylily bloom of the season: This is "Pearl Harbor" given to me by a generous DGer on the Mid-South forum, Kathy Ann.

We cross-posted, Kiska. Nice shot of the robin and at 10 p.m., too!

69* and 4/10'' rain this morn. I was out cutting back iris stems till it started to rain.

Thanks to all who liked my iris!

I'm zipping in and out today. I have a lot to catch up on.

Normal temps today, 75 and cloudy, windy.
Kelly, that's a huge yucca, they all look great there ! Same for the trees! Is that you on the second picture?
Joey, love that lily!
Se_eds, the plant's name is Lathyrus tuberosus, flower looks very much alike the Sweet peas'. I found this link with much info :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lathyrus_tuberosus
Thanks, Kiska, cute robin!
Marsue, I find it interesting too to know the popular names of the plants.
Here's my rudbeckias, a little thirsty!

Close up.

Black eyed Susan, Rudbeckia hirta.

Datura.

Daylily.