This past weekend, we were so blessed to be able to take a trip down to Cindy's Farm, and wow does she have a beautiful place!  We had an absolutely fantastic time!  I grew up on a mini farm, but my hubby is from the heart of the city, and we've settled on the suburbs for ourselves, but my heart sometimes aches for the wide open spaces.   During our visit, I was so thrilled to discover and have been able to identify 7 more wildflowers!

However, as the heat of Summer is here and Autumn is right around the corner (can you believe that?), the wildflowers are slowly tapering off, so I am looking at this as a good opportunity to switch Nature study focuses.  I think, because I have been inspired by Kim at From His Treasuries, we may be switching to studying and trying to identify insects during our Nature Study.  I'm not sure, I'm going to be praying and then see what is presented to us and what my kids get excited about!  So I will be removing my wildflowers slideshow off my blog, and then updating our wildflower notebook and of course we will still add to it as we discover any more.

We have studied and identified wildflowers since early Spring, and we have successfully identified 57 wildflowers!  We've really enjoyed getting to know them and being able to call them by name.  We will continue to have an eye-open to discovering new ones through the Fall, and well I know we will always be aware of them now!  But, alas it is time to say farewell sweet wildflowers, thank you for your generosity in presenting yourselves to us and for sharing your immense beauty, and most of all thank you for continually showing us our Creator's hand in your design.

Here are the photos of the new wildflowers we discovered.  And at the top my my blog, there is now a slideshow of our trip to Cindy's farm!

Tall Thistle

Yellow Ironweed

Common Mullein

Round-Fruited St. John's Wort

White Snakeroot

Velvetleaf (Pie-Maker)

Jimsonweed