In the Garden

Many speedy bees in the lavender, borage

and flowering broccoli.

I harvested beets.

In the Pond

There were 5 more between the two rocks.   They're each smaller than my thumbnail, some a lot smaller. 

 

Happy July

One more

space...  the cut out up there at the top of the building.  

Philadelphia Spaces

Swim Break

Panama City Beach, FL and St. Andrews State Park.

Perfect combination of sandy beaches and just right water temperatures. 

Where...

...could we find this most of the time?
Ecuador
Napa Valley area
Hawaii
San Diego

They are worth consideration.

April Flowers

Seize the Day

The weather changed my plans today.  After an appointment, I made my fastest ever Carpinito Brother's visit. I walked out with vegetable seedlings even before my coffee could get cold.

Broccoli, three types of lettuce, Swiss chard, peas and beets.   The beets have such long roots they may not transplant well.  I usually plant them as seeds.  There were many beet seedlings so we'll see how many make it.

While the days will be sunny this week, the nights are frosty.   Part of the seedlings are protected by the cloche, now in a different row than last year.    Since they are all vegetables that can take some cold weather, hopefully they'll do ok in the rows without the cloche also.

What was in the plans was planting the last of the 30 cedar seedlings.   And now that's done too.

Oooh...Old Shiny Things

 

I wish I could record this as a scratch and sniff.   Wonderful old car garage smells are a powerful memory trigger for me.   What a fun evening with dinner, visiting, and touring car and garden projects. 

   

 

 

This is a La Salle Flower Car, used for carrying flowers for funerals (and sometimes as backup hearse).  You don't see one of these every day or even one a year.  Our host has restored it, piece by piece.  When an original piece couldn't be found, he had to build it.

 

This one lived in our barn for a while.