Bob Jensen's Set 6-2017a of Favorite Summertime Flowers
Bob Jensen at Trinity University

Our flowers have thrived in the cool and wet 2017 summer
The flowers are great like in all previous summers in these White Mountains
I have a backlog of favorite summertime flowers
The pictures below are from the early 2017 summer season in June and early July

In the first week of July daughter Maria from Wisconsin visited.
Maria took the two pictures below while standing in our yard.
Note that I had just finished clipping our bushes.

Maria pointed her camera east for this picture across my clipped bushes
The open scar in left middle is a new ski trail added to the 90+ trails of Cannon Mountain

 

Maria pointed her camera west for the photograph below

 

I took this picture after I repaired part of the fence surrounding our wild flower field
These two trees are old locust trees

 

I think 2017 was the best year so far for lupine in our wildflower field
The tree below is an old maple tree

 

This is another old maple tree that split down the middle a few years ago

 

 

I knew you wanted to see our new Samsung Smart TV
It's smarter than me with remote control buttons that mystify me

 

This is one of our four Swedish propane stoves that supplement our furnace in the cold of winter

 

Among the early bloomers in June are the phlox and azaleas in our rock garden

 

Our phlox of previous summers

Set 1
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits//SummertimeFavorites/EarlySpringtime/EarlySpringtimeSet01.htm   

Set 2
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/SummertimeFavorites/EarlySpringtime/Set02/EarlySpringtimeSet02.htm 

Set 4
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/SummertimeFavorites/EarlySpringtime/Set04/EarlySpringtimeSet04.htm  

Set 5
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/SummertimeFavorites\EarlySpringtime\Set05\EarlySpringtimeSet05.htm 
 

Phlox  ---  http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/2009/Tidbits090807.htm  
Also see 
Springtime ---  http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/2009/Tidbits090807.htm

 

Our lilacs were ever so sweet smelling this year

 

Lilacs of previous summers

http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Lilacs/Set01/LilacsSet01.htm


 

These are two of the eight blue-flower planters I bought this year from Lowes
I don't even know the names of the blue flowers

 

This is one of our rhododendron bushes in early June before it bloomed in our pond garden

 

This is the same bush in late June after it finally bloomed alongside some newly-planted roses

 

 

 

 

My favorite annual is called Impatiens for the Sun (New Guinea Impatiens)
I plant them extensively in all three of our flower gardens
They don't suffer from bugs or blight and bloom wonderfully all summer long

 

 

Our New Guinea Impatiens of previous summers

The Seasonal Life Cycle of Bob Jensen's Impatiens
Part 1:  May-June
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Impatiens/ImpatiensSet01/ImpatiensSet01.htm  

Erika's Roses and the Seasonal Life Cycle of Bob Jensen's Impatiens
Part 2:  July-August
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Impatiens/ImpatiensSet02/ImpatiensSet02.htm  

Part 3:   Life Cycle of Bob Jensen's Impatiens (dead and gone after the first freeze)
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Impatiens/ImpatiensSet03/ImpatiensSet03.htm

Part 4 Photographs of My Impatiens and Other Flowers of Summer
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Impatiens/ImpatiensSet04/ImpatiensSet04.htm    

 

 

This year we have a wren family in a house above the pond garden and another one above the front garden
Their sweet songs make my day when I'm outdoors
We get hundreds of robins passing through in April
But they don't stay because our killer-crows get the baby birds in nests made in our bushes
This is is one of the sad ways of nature
Fortunately the crows can't perch outside the wren houses
Some years we get blue birds as well, but not this year

 

This is a Polka Wegilia bush I planted some years back
I now have to cut it back each year or it would grow too bid for our pond garden

 

 

This is one of the three Japanese Maple trees I planted a few years ago
Eventually I will make the limbs bend into sculptured shapes

 

I got the idea for this older Japanese Maple tree at our favorite hotel (The Spouter Inn) on the Coast of Maine
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Hotels/ErieCanalHouseboat/ErieCanal2013.htm

 

I never tire of looking out at Mt. Lafayette and Cannon Mountain from my desk

 

 

Below are some of my previous photographs of the White Mountain Ranges east of our cottage
 

Set 1 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Mountains/Set01/MountainsSet01.htm   

Set 2 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Mountains/Set02/MountainsSet02.htm     
              This set includes White Mountain hiking trail photographs

Photographs of the Summit of Mt Washington

http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/CogRailroad/History1/CogRailroadHistory.htm

http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Mountains/HistoryWhiteMountains/01/HistoryWhiteMoutains01.htm

Some of Wes Lavin's June 2016 Photographs
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Lavin/2016June/2016JuneLavin.htm 

Cannon Mountain Photographs ---  http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/2007/Tidbits071218.htm 

Photographs of the Mittersill Alpine Resort, New Hampshire --- 
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Hotels/Mittersill/Mittersill.htm

Bob Jensen's photographs from the tram and along the rim trail atop Cannon Mountain
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/HikingTrails/Set01/HikingTrailsSet01.htm

Bob Jensen's Favorite Pictures of Mt. Lafayette 10 Miles Distant
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Mountains/Layfayette01/Lafayette01.htm
With nine pages quoted from Bill Bryson's traumatic climb up Mt. Lafayette
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (Anchor Books, 2007)

Set 4 of My Sunrise and Sunset Favorites from the White Mountains of New Hampshire --- 
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/SunriseSunset/04/SunriseSunsetFavoritesSet04.htm     

Bob Jensen's Photographs of Sunrises and Sunsets on Mt. Garfield
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/SunriseSunset/04/SunriseSunsetFavoritesSet04Garfield.htm 

Photographs of the Scenic Mountain Village of Jackson, New Hampshire --- 
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Hotels/Jackson/Jackson01.htm

History of The White Mountains --- Set 01
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Mountains/HistoryWhiteMountains/01/HistoryWhiteMoutains01.htm

History of The White Mountains --- Set 02
 http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Mountains/HistoryWhiteMountains/02/HistoryWhiteMoutains02.htm

History of The White Mountains --- Set 03 (Franconia Notch)
 http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Mountains/HistoryWhiteMountains/03/WhiteMountains03-FranconiaNotch.htm

History of The White Mountains --- Set 04 (Crawford Notch)
 http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Mountains/HistoryWhiteMountains/04/WhiteMountains04-CrawfordNotch.htm 

History of The White Mountains --- Set 05 (Pinkham Notch)
 http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Mountains/HistoryWhiteMountains/05/WhiteMountains05-PinkhamNotch.htm
 
 

History of The White Mountains --- Set 06 (Kinsman Notch)
 http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Mountains/HistoryWhiteMountains/06/WhiteMountains06-Kinsman.htm

 

 

 

Bob Jensen's Summertime Favorites

Set 1 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/SummertimeFavorites/Set01/2010Set01.htm 

Set 2 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/SummertimeFavorites/Set02/2010Set03.htm

Set 3 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/SummertimeFavorites/Set03/2013Set03.htm

Set 4 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/SummertimeFavorites/Set04/2014Set04.htm

Set 5 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/SummertimeFavorites/Set05/Set05.htm

The Life Cycle of Our Peonies in 2012 ---   
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Peonies/Set02/PeoniesSet02.htm

The Seasonal Life Cycle of Bob Jensen's Impatiens
Part 1:  May-June
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Impatiens/ImpatiensSet01/ImpatiensSet01.htm 

Erika's Roses and the Seasonal Life Cycle of Bob Jensen's Impatiens
Part 2:  July-August
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Impatiens/ImpatiensSet02/ImpatiensSet02.htm  

Part 3:    Life Cycle of Bob Jensen's Impatiens (dead and gone after the first freeze)
http://www.www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Impatiens/ImpatiensSet03/ImpatiensSet03.htm  

Part 4 Photographs of My Impatiens and Other Flowers of Summer
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Impatiens/ImpatiensSet04/ImpatiensSet04.htm

Set 1 of Wes Lavin's 2017 Summer Pictures
http://cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Lavin/2017Summer/2017Summer.htm

Roses --- Domestic

Set 1 of Erika's Roses --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Roses/Domestic/Set01/DomesticRosesSet01.htm

Set 2 of Erika's Roses ---  http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Roses/Domestic/Set02/DomesticRosesSet02.htm 

Roses --- Our Wild Roses

Set 1 of Wild Roses --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Roses/Wild/Set01/WildRosesSet01.htm
Also see  --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/2009/Tidbits090807.htm

Set 2 of Wild Roses --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Roses/Wild/Set02/WildRosesSet02.htm

Tallahassee Camellias, Azaleas, and Wakulla Springs --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Tallahassee/Set01/Tallahassee1980Set01.htm  
We lived on an acreage in Florida 1978-1982 while I was on the faculty of Florida State University

Also see Summertime --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/2009/Tidbits090702.htm 

 

 

More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and Stories
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm

 

I see from my house by the side of the road
By the side of the highway of life,
The men who press with the ardor of hope,
The men who are faint with the strife,
But I turn not away from their smiles and tears,
Both parts of an infinite plan-
Let me live in a house by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.
Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911)

 

On May 14, 2006 I retired from Trinity University after a long and wonderful career as an accounting professor in four universities. I was generously granted "Emeritus" status by the Trustees of Trinity University. My wife and I now live in a cottage in the White Mountains of New Hampshire ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/NHcottage/NHcottage.htm

 

All my online pictures --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/PictureHistory/

Bob Jensen's threads --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Threads.htm

Bob Jensen's Home Page --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/