Riding Around - Noble Street

My second route for a ride follows Noble Street for about 7 blocks and back, a little shorter than Nelson West which is the equivalent of about 9 blocks and back.  But the roads along Noble Street are in much better condition; there's even a stretch of sidewalk that is smooth enough to ride! 

Noble Street comes to a dead end corner at each end so it's definitely not a through street and it has very little traffic,

 This beautiful bluish/purple Clematis was in full bloom two weeks ago.

And for any of you botanists in the crowd here's a picture of the Linear-leaved Plantain showing the rosette of linear leaves at the base of the plant.

I stopped at this house last year to see the Milkweed, but then I noticed that they have a Tulip Tree!  Or rather a multi-stemmed Tulip shrub.

The Milkweed have certainly come into bloom with all our warm sunny weather.  They were just buzzing with bees and I'll be going back to get lots more pictures.

True to form the Monarchs have shown up, just as the Milkweed are blooming.  Yesterday two of them visited our own Milkweed plants, even though the blooms haven't opened uet.  As you can see I wasn't quite fast enough with my camera!  How do they know and how do they find an isolated five plants in our garden?

As I cross Nelson Street I get a glimpse of Georgian Bay far below.  This is the first sailboat I've seen this year.

A couple of houses have some interesting exterior decorations.  Nice I think, if you don't overdo it.

And at the farthest end of the street where my friends live are the first Day Lilies I've seen other than the orange 'Ditch' Lilies.   Some nice yellow ones here.

As I mentioned yesterday, I stop in the shade of each big Maple for a brief cool-down.  Amazing how well that works.