I remember my sister had a gold colored Chipmunks record when I was a kid. Dad got frustrated by Alvin, Theodore and Simon. The record was broken. We will leave it right there.
Yesterday, Grand Junction reached 107 degrees for the first time in written weather history. And, today I woke up to 68 cultivators. I believe that’s a new record. My computer is choking on the picture files, too.
Today brought 5 premiers. I need to post from my phone while my computer deletes files.
Fine Time Lucille 7.10 – a fun bonus
Orange Flurry 7.10 – another bonus, I believe
Fooled Me 7.10 – An early xeroscaping plant
Truchas Sunrise- 7.10 – A nice Roberts spiders that makes me long for my road trip in a couple of weeks.
Baja 7.10 – I have had this one a while. Nice velvet bloom.
So, looks like we are still on top of the Mesa. We will see what tomorrow brings.
No blog about Southwest (and West) daylily names would be complete without a blog about our namesake, The Colorado Kid.
So, what say we take a ride down the Colorado River for a spell. It is only an hour from my house and runs through some of my favorite camping and hiking spots.
Rocky Mountain National Park – 2014
The mighty Colorado starts in Rocky Mountain National Park, not too far from where I grew up (in Estes Park). Born in the Colorado snowpack, it (like me) heads straight the desert.
Colorado River State Park – 2019
The Colorado runs through Grand Junction – I love camping at Colorado River State Park and exploring the Colorado National Monument. It is amazing the force of wind and water on sandstone.
McInnis Canyon National Recreation Area
So, on my February trip, we took the back road (Utah 128) that runs by the Colorado River.
Fisher Towers formed by the Colorado River – 2020
The river then runs through Dead Horse Point – a favorite, dog-friendly hiking spot.
Dead Horse Point State Park – 2019
From there, it heads down through Lake Powell.
Lake Powell National Recreation Area
And on to the Grand Canyon.
Horseshoe Bend, five miles downstream from Lake Powell – 2015Grand Canyon National Park – 2015
The Colorado Kid daylily was a must-have daylily when I first started collecting daylilies for their place names.
The Colorado Kid – 2019
The other reason I picked her is that she is near blue. I was absolutely infatuated with near-blues when I first discovered that daylilies didn’t come in blue. I guess we want what we can’t have. At any rate, her color is best before the sun hits her – she is on the north side of the house. Once the light hits, her blue is decidedly purple.
The Colorado Kid – 2019
She is one of my favorite near-blues in my near-blue pot section of the yard. And, she is the namesake of this blog. And, another reason to go road trippin’ vicariously through my daylilies during the COVID pandemic.
Colorado Kid Daylilies 