COME JOIN ME AND ENJOY SOME BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS!

I could not pass up the above photograph due to its cheerful bright yellow color and a honey bee hard at work. I leave my dandelions grow because it is food for our early pollinators, and pretty to look at. Dandelion leaves are highly nutritious. Dandelion is also one of the ingredients I use for my migraine headache remedy.

As many of you know I have been busy during the past week with raising awareness and raising funds for Ana Hurtado Aponte who is an 8 month old child from Venezuela. Ana has a brain tumor called craniopharyngioma and is in need of surgery. In the event Ana does not receive brain surgery soon she could lose her ability to see and be mobile. This could be permanent. As with any surgery this is expensive, and with it being surgery on the brain it is more than likely much more expensive. I will share my original post about Ana which I am using to raise funds for Ana's gofundme project. All money earned on that post will be donated to this project. The second link is another post I did showing where I sent funds to the project that were donations that were sent to my wallet. I have received additional funds since then. Please check out these links and thank all of you that have been of support (you will also find a link for Ana's gofundme project in my post:

https://steemit.com/life/@r2cornell/introducing-8-month-old-ana-who-is-need-of-brain-surgery

https://steemit.com/life/@r2cornell/first-monies-raised-for-8-month-old-ana-who-is-need-of-brain-surgery

Now let us move on to more flower photographs. This first photograph is called Lupine. It came up a couple of years ago from a packet of wildflower seeds:

A couple of weeks ago my granddaughter and I went on a road trip to get away. She took a "selfie" with her smart phone and wanted me to share it. We had a great time taking a break from our lives:

Our Petunias are doing well this year. I typically grow them in containers. This year I had them planted for Mother's Day.

This next photograph is of our larger Irises. We mostly have the dark purple. I have some plants that have not bloomed for a few years which I will move later this summer. I believe they are yellow and there may be some light blue ones as well. We have these purple ones growing in numerous patches. These are much larger than our Siberian irises whcih I shared in previous posts.

This final flower is a very small flower which I believe is related to phlox. I posted several photos of this plant last year. It comes up on its own. I hope you enjoy this macro-photo of it:

I hope everyone finds something in this post that they enjoy. I have more flowers beginning to open and continue to take as many photos as I can. I am also busy getting my garden planted. I am making good progress. I will get back to container growing soon.

Even though this is the end of the photographs please continue reading the rest of my post.