Still More Flowers

I have a lot of wild rose pictures again, and a number of lilac pictures as well, but I do have some other variety thrown in, so don't worry!
  Sunset on June 15th:

Evening on the 16th:

Wild rose on the 18th, and a young robin.  My mom had heard some bird making a weird sound in the trees, so I jumped off the deck and went to investigate.  I don't know if it was the baby robin making the noise or not, because the sound stopped as soon as I got to the trees, but then I looked up and saw the youngster perched in a branch only a couple feet above my head, taking a rest from practicing his flying.

I thought the wheat looked neat after Dad finished tine-weeding on the 20th, and then later I got a picture of the sunset.  And shortly after that, I decided to snap a quick shot of the arrangement of bluebells, alfalfa, and wild rose on the page of one of my journals, before I pressed them.

Same evening, after I was done with my journal, I walked past the patio window on my way to bed and thought the sunlit clouds still looked neat.

Now the rest of these pictures are from today, the 21st, so I'll just caption each one individually instead of listing them all up here :D

My wild prairie rose. Last year I came up with my own little spin off of the song "My Wild Irish Rose" - I changed one word. Instead of saying "Irish", I say "prairie".

The lilacs in full bloom! I'm not sure if I'm imagining it or not, but it seems to me that there are more of them this year than last year.

I'm pretty sure this is a Canadian Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly.

Wild rose and lilac buds

I'm unsure of what kind of plant this is, but I thought it looked neat.

Little white spider sitting in the rose? He skittered underneath when I came closer for a better shot. I saw one of these spiders on a rose last year, too.

I don't know what this is either, but I've been seeing quite a few of these around. They look like some kind of dried flower.

A patch of bluebells

There was a storm coming this afternoon. It was supposed to miss us, but then it started expanding. I took this picture shortly before it blocked out the sun.

Wild roses intertwining with the lilacs

This rose was only slightly bigger than my thumbnail. I don't think I've ever seen a wild rose so small.

I also don't know what this is...

Wild strawberry blossoms

These darker roses are so pretty!

A small cluster of wild roses, with the darkness of the leaf-blanketed forest behind it.

These were the thunderheads in the opposite direction of the impending storm at the time.

And both storms in the same shot! I managed to get pretty much all of the sun in the top left corner too.