Creeping Bell Flower......

This plant really enjoys all the rain we are receiving as it doesn't do well in the heat.

A bonus photo today I am providing of the full stand of the bell flower in my front yard.

Dragonfly, maybe.......no it is a Damselfly!!!!!!

I have a few of these hanging around my water this year.  I just read in a magazine about fish ponds and that they are hatched out of the water of a pond.  I guess I thought dragonfly insects had a double set of overlapping wings.  These wings appear to be a single set and are not clear as you can see. I had a hard time getting one of them to stay still, but finally it landed on this leaf and proceeded to clean the leaf of something that was living on the leaf.  I really like the glow of the tail section.

I have sources who helped out here and it is a damselfly.  The pictures below came off the internet but they too wouldn't tell me the name of the insect. Thanks for the help.

 Footnote:  a few minutes later,
I found two photos of it on the internet and you can see with the better camera that it picks up the double set of wings.  I still didn't find a name for it.

A male Ebony Jewelwing as identified by Randy.  Thanks everyone!

Backyard view......

There has been not lack of water this year for the plants to grow. The ditch lilies are about to bloom and the phlox is starting to mildew from so much moisture. The Asian lily is going strong, the one in orange, and right next to it the yellow one will take over once the orange one is done.   The fog is actually my burgers burning on the grill. It is almost ghost like but it is just smoke.  Strong winds today took a chunk out of my chokecherry tree and I have a few other branches to get picked up.

Monochromatic greens and yellows........

I have a lot of flowers yet to post but I had to catch a view of the pin oak tree in my backyard.

Let this brighten your day.......

I have had this lily for a long time and I know that it reminds us of a tiger lily,  but tiger lily hang their blooms downward.  I have always liked this one with it's spots. 

Hydrangea bloom.......

As they mature they become more white and less green.  I saw a variety in a magazine called limelight and I want to compare it to the one I have here.  I liked it because the shape of bud head was more pointed. I know this one is an old historic foundation plant that was handed back and forth throughout the community. I actually saw the limelight on sale at Kmart today but it really didn't look that much different from what I already have.

As a bonus photo I want to show you the whole plant.  I am going to take a couple of side shoots and move it to the other side of my steps.  The privet looks great against it but it dies down each winter and then sends out new sprouts each spring, thus it never gets very large.

Tuesday........

My garden angel is taking a break from all the rain. The sun looks so good to me when I feel like we have been shut in because of the rain, just as much as we were the past winter because of all of the snow and cold.