Bloom n Beetle
First the flower then the bug.
Blue Eyed Grass – Sisyrinchium mucronatum

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The plant looks like grass but a closer look reveals the Iris Family lineage. Blue eyed grass can be found in fields and meadows and often growing along roadsides. Actually you find it where you find it. In this case I found only one but there it was in a shady lane.
This is a species of blue eyed grass with NO branched stems. One clue to the identity – the leaves are much shorter than the flower stem. |

Bug Time
Six-spotted Green Tiger Beetle – Cicindela sexguttata
This ground beetle is seldom found far from the woods. It’s color can be bluish and the spots may be missing but it’s supposed to be hard to confuse this beetle with any others.

Don’t you just hate it when that expensive metallic paint job starts to flake?









