Maria ran out of the batting for her quilts, so we are heading to Glens Falls, N.Y., to get more. We might stop to eat along the way; we’re both pretty wiped out. I had fun figuring out how to capture the fascinating and grumpy Thistles sprouting everywhere. We watched Kamal Harris’s first campaign speech tonight; it will be a wild Summer and Fall.
I’m signing out. See you in the morning. I’m impressed with Thistles, touching flowers that fight back. Despite the thorns, which have stuck with me many times today, the donkeys have no trouble eating them and chewing them slowly and happily. I wouldn’t dare.
thistles are invasive here (as in many places) and the property owners work to try to eradicate them……… but…many still persist. Was amazing when we still had our donkeys….to see them pluck thistle blossoms and happily munch them……as if there were no prickly elements at all! How do they do that? Of course, they also loved poison oak and devoured it with great relish (no donkey kisses given during poison oak season)!
Susan M
> they bite…
Oh and do they!!!
In Winnie the Pooh, thistles are Eeyore the donkey’s favorite food! But when Tigger tries them, he thinks he has a stinging bee in his mouth.
I did not know Donkeys ate them! Wow. How cool is that? I was out photographing flowers yesterday as well. I’m doing some thistle, I don’t know what they are. I’ll start posting on my smug mug account if you’d like to see… ; )