Mouse over the picture to see their names.

My Nephew took me out on an expotition to shoot flowers around the neighborhood. And I did. These are just a few of the ones I like. I think a camera should be intimate with a flower, at least sometimes.
I fell in love with that one little Daisy. The Moonbeam Coreopsis is in my friend Connie's Yard. The Sweet-Peas live in my sister's yard. I brought back seeds from Oregon many years ago, and tossed them in there. They like it there! I have loved Marigolds all my life. When I see one, I almost automatically take a picture of it.

I loved the Senator after whom they are named. He was antiwar in a time when all the world could say was "Kill! Kill!! Kill!!!" He worked hard to make the simple Marigold the State flower of Illinois. Instead, the blue violet was named the official flower. He was known to eat real food before that was fashionable, too. Family friend, too.
He was a close friend of my Father, and remembered my dad when I saw him in a parade years after my dad died. "You're Steve's girl, aren't you?" It touched my heart and brought me to tears, and he hugged me and said, "We all miss him."
This is the scoop on Everett Dirksen:
Everett McKinley DIRKSEN, a Representative and a Senator from Illinois; born in Pekin, Tazewell County, Ill., January 4, 1896; attended public schools and the University of Minnesota College of Law at Minneapolis; during the First World War served overseas as a private and later as a second lieutenant of Field Artillery 1918-1919; general manager of a dredging company 1922-1925; commissioner of finance of Pekin, Ill., 1927-1931; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1936 and commenced practice in Pekin, Ill.; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-third and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1949); chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Eightieth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1948; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1950; reelected in 1956, 1962, and again in 1968, and served from January 3, 1951, until his death in Washington, D.C., September 7, 1969; Vehemently opposed to the Viet Nam War. Republican whip 1957-1959; minority leader 1959-1969; chairman, Joint Committee on Inaugural Arrangements (Ninetieth Congress); lay in state in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, September 9-10, 1969; interment in Glendale Memorial Gardens, Pekin, Illinois.

Comments:

The flowers are beautiful!!

Lovely flowers. Thanks for naming them. I remember Senator Dirksen. He was one of the good guys. Wonder what he would think about Iraq.

comment by jthoneydew on July 18, 2008 12:16 AM ()

It makes me sad too

reply by jthoneydew on July 19, 2008 1:35 PM ()

It would break his heart.
How on earth did we ever let someone like George Bush get to be our President?
When did public office become more about lining one's pockets than serving the country?
There were always those with shifty eyes and sticky fingers, but on the whole, there was the odd bad apple. Now the whole basket is spoiled.
When did Jesus come to take over political power?
When I was a child He had come to save us from our sins.
It makes me feel so sad.

reply by thestephymore on July 18, 2008 11:40 PM ()

comment by lunarhunk on July 15, 2008 9:28 AM ()

I am only just learning how to use a digital camera. It came with no directions. Only yesterday I found out my tiny little camera has both a video and an audio mode! I need a book! I'll ask the Library to send me one.
And they will! God Bless Librarians!

reply by thestephymore on July 18, 2008 11:45 PM ()