The Weekend has Arrived

And not a moment too soon.  It's time to go to the grocery store. You see, I am retired, but for some reason, I feel the need to add to the grocery store traffic on a Saturday when all the working mothers are there with their screaming children, the fathers who have their kids for the weekend and are valiantly trying to find something to feed them as they have been forbidden to feed them any more fast food and last, all the other folks in wheelchairs and walkers because Saturday's are when their kids can accompany them to the store.  Yeah, so I need to add to all that.
But the garden calls this morning. The sun has returned. About time. So the flowers have their heads up again instead of bowed to the rain and the veggies are growing so fast, you can see them headed for that yellow ball in the sky they have not seen in so long.
That black gamecock iris that was trying to bloom yesterday morning did:

It was definitely worth the wait.  These are the darkest of the Louisiana Irises, almost black and incredibly beautiful.

This guy was out and about after the rain as well.  He evidently was not romantically interested in me as his bright red dewlap was not inflated.  Nor was he afraid of me - same reason.  Part of his tail is missing. Don't worry, he can grow a new one.

Have a wonderful weekend, wherever you are.

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Thanks for your visit today.