Day Lilies and Sweet Peas

It's that mid-summer time of year when the 'flowers of the field' (what some know as 'ditch lilies'), the original orange Day Lilies, and the brilliantly pink Sweet Peas flash from the roadside.  It makes driving those country roads extra nice.

On the way to Thornbury one day, I passed this enormous patch of the Lilies and Sweet Peas mixed together - orange and pink, a surprisingly vibrant combination!

I've seen these orange Day Lilies in many places, including around old homesteads where the Lilies have apparently survived for over 100 years, sometimes with decades of simply being abandoned to fend for themselves.

The Sweet Peas are not quite as common, but beautiful in their own right.  It's easy to gather the seeds after the pea pods form, and scatter them to grow your own.

At any rate, I really enjoyed this bright flower combination.

I follow blogs by a number of full-time RVers, among them a couple who spend their summers not far away, Patsy and Bill Richards (on the right).  I also follow George and Suzie, at Our Awesome Travels (on the left here).  George is a chef and features lots of recipes on his blog.  Both Bill and Patsy write blogs, On Our Way and Chillin with Patsy.

George and Suzie are up here in the highlands of southern Ontario visiting Bill and Patsy, and they invited us over to meet them all.  So the Furry Gnome and Mrs. F.G. enjoyed a three hour chat with these other bloggers, and, as others have found, even though we've never met them before, you find you're immediately friends as soon as you arrive.  Finally putting a face to these online people!  We really enjoyed it, so thanks folks.  Check their blogs if you want to see the pix they took of us.

And yes, there was a nice sunset at Patsy and Bill's summer parking place, which they call 'The Ridge'.  Safe travels to all of you.