Who Goes Walking at 7:00 in the Morning?

Today, I got a late start and was still dawdling around snapping pictures of roses at 7:00 a.m., when who should come lunging over to greet me but Pebbles! She didn't really have her ears laid back, as appears in this photo -- the wind of her swift passage blew them back. She was really quite friendly, even though not so well-behaved as her owner would have liked.



I'd seen her from a distance on other mornings, but this time I had the opportunity to ask permission to take her picture, which the owner readily granted me. Here she's just checking out a trail invisible to us humans:



And now she's telling us all that she's ready to move on:



On the other side of the campus, over half an hour later, I met Sammy and his owner -- my first ever encounter with those two. Both of them were also very friendly and so I got permission to photograph Sammy.

His owner and I exchanged names, and she said that Sammy, like the Buddha, is friends with everyone. When I asked, in bantering mode, if perhaps Sammy were an incarnation of the Buddha, I got an appreciative laugh. "Yes," she said, "he's Neo-Buddha." I'm invited to visit them next Saturday, since they live only a few blocks from me.

So, heeere's Sammy!



And Sammy moving on:

Daylilies? Double Daffodils? Who knows?

This morning I made some more photos of the planting of yellow flowers, hoping that seeing them en masse might help one of my viewers identify them for me.







And the flower's heart itself, as seen on May 30, 2010:

Who Can Tell Me Its Name?

I wish I knew the name of this plant. It's part of an ornamental flower bed -- the long, slender leaves are very profuse, making a striking green appearance with the showy flowers crowding among them. It's a banked bed that extends back several feet to the decorative wall, curving around it in a gentle arc of five or six feet. The plant is obviously a cultivar, but I haven't been able to identify it yet.





I put a cropped closeup of it on my other blog, reckon i should tell this? a few days ago, just because I think it's such a beautiful color and form, but, now, not knowing its name is beginning to nag at me.

Hope someone will see it here and be able to identify it for me.