WILDFLOWERS AT HOME ( part 3 )

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PURPLE VIOLET

This is one of several different kinds of purple violets found in our yard.  Some have more slender leaves; others are a lighter shade of purple.  They appear in May in the sunnier areas of the yard and are especially notable before the first lawn mowing of the season.  In June the violet leaves can still be found but the flowers are mostly gone.

YELLOW VIOLET

These violets appear from middle to late May and can be found on the backside of the house next to the bathroom wall.  They are volunteers in this spot and very welcome in my opinion.  

Yellow violets are one of my favorite wild flowers.  When young we would look for these at my Schafer cousins maybe because they were less common than the purple and white violets.

                                          SWEET WHITE VIOLET

White violets are smaller than yellow and purple violets.  These tiny little flowers show up in May in the yard in front of the garage.  They are many in numbers.

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My sister told me today that young kids are wearing socks that don’t match, to school, in public, all the time.  At first I thought it was kind of cute and funny.  But now I’m not so sure.  I’ve been told that kids today are lazier than ever, but this really takes the cake.   It seems in these times anything is o.k., anything goes.  Things that not long ago would have been strictly taboo are accepted without question.  Good old-fashioned common sense and morals don’t mean much and now I am finding out kids don’t even have the ambition to match up a pair of socks.  Yee Gads, I think the world is surely going to hell.