The hot day post

Here in Grand Island, the current temperature is 90 degrees. It feels even hotter. I am back at home from a very toasty walk to the library to pick up a book. It is about a five-mile round trip, mainly because I take the "scenic route."

It's nice to see the busy bees and the blooming flowers, despite the terrible drought that we've been experiencing here. The lawns are brown and look as if they are nearly dead. Apparently, not completely dead because people are still mowing their lawns.

Here are some pictures from my toasty walk.

Rose of Sharon blooms and buds.

This group of bees is busy with the flowering thistle. For a plant that I dislike as much as a thistle, it does produce a lovely flower. Needless to say, I dig them out of every garden that I tend to.

Bridge to Veterans Park.

One horse in a back yard. Busily grazing.

On my way home, I passed these very tall sunflowers. It was interesting to watch the busy-ness of the bees, who congregate at the center of the sunflowers. 

I love sunflowers and am excited about photographing them. I'm thinking about using one of these photographs as reference material for a painting. A sunflower and bee painting. 

I could fill up the entire page with a larger than life sunflower and pretend that I am Georgia O'Keeffe. That will be a future blog post. Stay tuned!