Day lilies grow along my road!
July is a month I look forward to because our day lilies
are in bloom. They are so beautiful along side the road in front of our house and paddock. The roads through out the state forest have them too, but not like we have.
Beautiful!
One year, I was so happy to see them in full bloom........the next day our local highway department mowed them all down! I was livid! You can believe they heard about it from me! The next year I was waiting for them. But they were already under instructions not to mow them down. I can see mowing along the sides of roads that have traffic. Hey, we live in the state forest
. Not that much traffic here. Besides my husband keeps it mowed real pretty all summer and it looks nicer than any road I have ever seen.
Summer time flowers!
You can cook the early spring shoots like asparagus. Or include them in your salads. The roots are also edible and the flowers themselves are also safe to eat. Basically you can eat them all spring, summer and fall. Fresh flowers are usually cooked as fritters. Fresh, dried or withered flowers can be used in stews. Flower buds can be prepared as green beans are. The white tubers (roots) can added to salad or cooked like corn.
An edible plant and flower!
I think it is good to know about edible wild plants even if you would never plan on serving them for dinner. Gather some and cook them and add them to some salads. Show your children how you do it. Then try them. That way at least you know how to use them if sometime in the future you may need them. In this world today, you never know. Teach your children so they will know when they are grown up. The day may come when this knowledge will be lifesaving.
Copyright © 2011 Kathleen G. Lupole
All Photographs Copyright © 2011 Kathleen G. Lupole
All Photographs Copyright © 2011 Kathleen G. Lupole
still stands for what I, and every American citizen believes in. The fact that our government does not stand up to our vision of it, has nothing to do with the flag or the citizens.
. After that the flag was used to show our patriotism. Until then it had been mainly used for military moves and for marking our territories. Major Anderson started a movement with his actions and things changed. The Stars and Stripes flew everywhere and still does today. They could not keep up the demand of making them by hand anymore. The flag then had to be mass produced.
, I never saw so many flags. It united our country in a way, like World War II did. So if you fly a flag today, it is appreciated, even though nobody tells you so. Just seeing the red, white and blue waving in the breeze, is an enormous feeling of pride to me. The fourth of July is the day to celebrate our independence and our flag. God bless America!
are a wonderful snack! We will eat a lot of them if we have them.They are one of my favorite vegetables.
plant I planted years ago coming up. It comes up every year, usually at a completely different location. This year though, it is the same place as last year. I was happy to see the first one come up and now I have a few more. You never know with that one how many you will get. 
I planted have really taken off. The cooler temps agree with them and I have them in area of the garden where when the sun is really hot, they are sort of shaded. I am hoping to get a good crop of them for our harvest. Usually I can my winter squash and these are supposed to be really big. I don't know as it is my first time growing them.
