RIVERSIDE SNOW IN JUNE

This morning I led a hike along the Riverside Park dike – both sides of the highway, in Lexington.

The weather was warm … but not overly hot, so the walk was enjoyable.

Cotton fluff from the cottonwood trees was filling the air and falling like snowflakes all around us:

We didn’t see any wildlife (nothing showed itself today), but we did see some wildflowers …

Common Mullein

(Growing Mullein in the Herb Garden - The Spruce).

Queen Anne’s Lace (aka: Wild Carrot) blossoms; open and balled … I’ve never seen the balled flowerhead before; it is the plant from which the domestic carrot was developed.

Wild Carrot blossom – aka, Queen Anne's Lace. (https://www.brc.ac.uk/plantatlas/plant/daucus-carota)

Yellow daisies.

Purple Hairy Vetch twining through the Wild Carrot (aka: Queen Anne’s Lace) – (https://csuvth.colostate.edu/poisonous_plants/Plants/Details/106)

After the walk, we all got Fish & Chips baskets at Kirbey’s on West Side Highway and ate them at Trudy and Ed’s home, where she showed us pictures of their Alaskan Hike Trip: she had her pictures made into a pretty cool book. She and Ed have done many hiking adventures and they are a source of adventuring information - I like listening to their stories of places they've been all over the globe, and the interesting hikes they did.

It was a real enjoyable day that led into a relaxing Shabbat :-D

L'Chiam! 

I love you, Babe. Always ~ OX