these are the flowers in my neighborhood

as i drive erik to daycare in the morning and then head to my lab, i have been noticing some of the really beautiful flowers on our street and around our neighborhood. i don't know a whole lot about flowers, but i was amazed by the variety of different types of lilies i see around greenfield.

these are our "wedding lilies." they came from the bulbs that my mom bought as favors for our wedding in 2001. at the time we didn't have a yard (we were living at our apartment in budd lake), so peter's aunt and her now husband the chief (who are amazing gardeners) collected lots of these bulbs and planted them, and gave us some plants when we bought our house on shore road in green township. and then they moved with us here :)




these ones are in our front yard, and i haven't seen any others like them nearby:




here are some others:




















that's a lot of lilies, eh? you might think that lilies are my favorite flowers, but they're not. actually i am not sure which i like the best. i can appreciate the beauty of all flowers, but i really like these ones, called sneezeweed a lot:





these ones are a pretty close second:







here are some of my other favorites:
















(loved these little purple flowers too!)









that's probably flower overload, but i love them all! please feel free to check out the whole set on my flickr page.