Rudbeckia hirta

The Black-eyed Susan have finally bloomed! And just in time, because our sunflower (just one this year...) has exhausted itself.

hurry up spring!

I'm tired of this monotonous hibernating feeling!

summer yields the best flowers

Well spring/summer to be fair. But seconds after reassessing that comment I realize I like all kinds of flowers in any season.

spring is springing

Magnolia stellata - so many growing out here, and they are beautiful. Everyone I meet in Chicago keeps telling me how lucky I am to have come as soon as winter's passed. The people here are awakening and joyful to see Spring come in and it's fascinating to see how powerful that is. I'm awake right now because I of some thunderstorms that just began, and are supposed to go on for the rest of the day/my stay. Drat! Can't stay inside forever... Two days left and so much still to see!

fairy flowers

Flowers are nature's models. I pass by these pretty little things when I walk my poopies and I never have my camera on me to capture them. My sister even noticed these flowers over the weekend when she was walking them and picture-messaged them to me as I slept in. I went back to that house and even jumped up on their walled lawn (as an architecture major, I feel like I should know the proper name for this), creeper-style to sneak some snaps of the first flower shown. I like how in the freshly bloomed ones there's a purplish-blue streak along the center of the petal, and as it gets older it fades away. Flowers are so much like people in that sense! Crazy talk. In my family I'm a bit of the token "flower child" because, growing up I liked to learn all the names of flowers/plants and trees and I'd even get in trouble for picking something out of someone else's yard. My mom and sister like flowers, but when it comes to me I'm "obsessed" with them.

reasons I love home #2

flowers, flowers everywhere.