- Grass (not wool) gathering

We have friends coming to visit from Virginia, so we're fixing things up a bit and I decided to show off some of the grasses that grow on our homestead. This is the view from the kitchen window with a westering sun back-lighting the (mostly) single stems, the better to see the incredible diversity of forms ...

Our funky balsamic vinegar vases on the front porch beams needed refreshing ...

so I filled them with stems of purple top, yellow Indian grass, and little bluestem ...

"Do you think they need to be cut down a little?" Don ventured. 

"Not at all." I replied, "I want to show how incredibly tall they are."

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A bit of Lindheimer's muhly ended up on the breezeway ... 

I gathered some more love grass and just let it arrange itself ...

... at least I think it's love grass

And ended by picking out stems of switchgrass broken during the recent storm (which dropped a foot or so of rain), adding them to the dried blades Don cut last year ...

when my eye caught on Don's latest assemblage (upper left of the previous picture) not yet documented here, so I snapped one last picture ...

Time to call it a day.