Flower Power

 

I had my second day at the Dog Palace yesterday. It was still windy but at least more sun and less clouds, so it felt warmer. Record breaking Rita was straight out of the blocks on the first walk. I was thinking, even though there are still lots of flowers about and some still to come, there are some beautiful seed arrangements, where once the flowers have been, tennis ball sized dandelion clocks ( might have mentioned them before), and much smaller  delicate ones of all sorts of different shapes, all chancing their luck with the wind, on wether they get carried away to a place that they can germinate in, when the rains arrive next year. I saw an iris type plant, which has a bud on it, it’s the only one I have seen here so far. I have a collection of flowers I have  photographed as they have appeared, I will send details of the album, when the season finishes. 

I have seen Cuckoo spit here, it’s the secretion of an insect apparently, nothing to do with the bird at all. One of the dogs went wandering into a bed of flowers and I smelt fennel and surely so, there was fennel in that bed, which had been squashed a bit, releasing the aniseed smell. There is also a type of Mallow, much smaller than ours, but with the same type of flower and leaf.  The Apricots at the Dog  Palace are doing well.

The grasses are also seeding, some really tall, with all sorts of different seed heads on them, but also the sort of grass one might find on a UK cricket pitch. That surprises me somewhat. Manoli has a few more fur balls to remove, the mention of them had him hiding again. I had some nice cheese roasties for lunch and a delicious salad. I have resolved to start cooking more vegetarian meals, I have been a bit lazy recently. For the last walk with the Dog Palaces own dogs, we nearly got to a second church, on one of our routes, I know the church, but it was a bit too far today.  We could see it in the distance, Prophet Elias. A lazy day tomorrow, looks like it’s going to be nice and warm.