Sunrise Lake Birthday Fun

Sylvia and I have birthdays only 2 days apart at the very beginning of August. So today we celebrated with a trip to Sunrise Lake with my kayak. We took turns relaxing on shore and kayaking on the lake.

That dot in the distance is Sylvia in the kayak. ;-)

And it gave me the opportunity to find more wildflowers...water flower wildflowers!

Water Smartweed (Polygonum amphibium)

A close-up of Water Smartweed

Fragrant White Waterlily (Nymphaea odorata)

Can you see the sky and clouds reflected in the water?

Yellow Pondlily (Nuphar advena)

Pondlilies serve many communities: Ducks eat the seeds. Moose and deer graze on the greens. Muskrats and Beavers relish the sweet rootstocks, storing catches of them for winter. 

Native Americans and frontier peoples, who cooked and ate the rootstocks like potatoes or pounded them into flour, sometimes raided the animal stockpiles!

(North American Wildlife)

Damselflies (Zygoptera) resting on a Pondlily.

Common Arrowhead (Sagittaria latifola)

According to my references, these will be flowering next month.

It was a lovely afternoon of sun, warmth, and water.

An excellent birthday adventure!

Happy Birthday, all you August babies!