Sunday, July 3, 2022

Let Freedom Flower

Today, on the eve of my country's 246th birthday, I want to bring you some flowers in the colors of my country:  red, white and blue.  All of these photos were taken today, here in the United States.

Since tomorrow is our Independence Day, shouldn't I be baking a cake instead?  The Canadians have this one nailed for their special day (which was July 1) so why not us?

Before you wonder why I'm sharing flowers and not a yummy dessert of some kind, I should remind you of one of my cooking misadventures while making sort-of 4th of July/Canada Day mashup cake several years ago.

Therefore, flowers.

Red is easy - variegated geranium.


White - Astilbe.

 Hosta.

Blue is not an easy color, though.  So many "blue" flowers are actually shades of purple.  However, I went to my community garden area and saw this wild chicory. 

Let freedom flower!

Although I'll have more music tomorrow for the every Monday Music Moves Me, I wanted to share this song I saw on a fellow music blogger's website.  What gave me goosebumps was the video, a compilation of pictures taken of immigrants to the United States between 1900 and 1920.  This happens to be the time span my grandparents and some of my aunts and uncles arrived in the United States.  There's so much I don't know about them and they never could have imagined one of their granddaughters would use technology they couldn't dream of to bring her readers some beauty today.

Neil Diamond and "Coming to America".

Enjoy your Sunday, wherever you live.

2 comments:

  1. ...times sure have changed and they are changing.

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  2. Isn't the 4th for pie anyway? I mean, I prefer cake, but I thought people really did pies for the holiday.

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