Sunday Walk

The cat took us for an evening walk from brother's house. What is the vine in the photo below?

SC Vegetable Gardens

The gardens of nieces and nephews in SC. Big corn. Harvesting summer squash. (Yes, there is a donkey and much more.) My car riders didn't appreciate my stops in the middle of the road to look at strangers' gardens, so no pictures of those.

Happy Birthday, Brother

Always seeing the opportunity for a little teasing and fun - hope this day is fun for you too.

(our house siding project with Dad sometime in the 1970's)

Hendersonville, NC

This is a learning together bear painted with handprints in Hendersonville. I missed the gardening bear, though. The views and spider are from Jump Off Rock. We didn't jump.

Required bug catching tools

My great-nieces taught me about catching bugs today.

KS/SC Mimosa Memories

It was a nice surprise today to arrive at my brother's house in South Carolina and find the mimosa blooming. It came from a seed of the tree at our family's house in Kansas. We had many years of summers around those KS trees.

Sunshine!

And rocking chairs at the Baltimore airport. DH is left in charge of the littlest tomatoes. (Matron-a black cherry tomato finally sprouted! Golden Jubilees are now in the garden.)

Petunia has returned!

She's living in these irises.   I hope she is eating a lot of slugs.

Evening Grosbeaks

A flock of evening grosbeaks have been in the area for a few weeks, on their way to somewhere.   These are taken through the window on a rainy day this week.   Yesterday and today, I haven't seem as many of them.   

They are a very cheerful and chatty group.  They remind me of the cedar waxwings who loudly announce their arrival for cascara berry season later in the year. 

Matron offered up slug training as a thesis topic in need of research.   While that is not in my sabbatical plan, squirrel training  is quickly moving up the list. 

Week's Weather Phone Post

The week's weather all on one view. This is a test post from my phone too.