This summer,
…we have had delightful visitors!
…and the front porch is blossom-laden,
…and garden produce sits on my kitchen countertop.
This baby hydrangea is a gift from a gardener who invited me in for a spontaneous tour while on my walk. Aren’t neighbours wonderful?
My raspberries are almost as tall as my nieces!
A friend who is into organic gardening told me you could grow potatoes in a bale of hay…so I am trying it. Seems to be working.
Anise Hyssop, with its purple stalks adds colour and the bees love it. The leaves give off a fragrant licorice oil when crushed and it tastes exotic in a cup of hot water. No sugar needed!
What a wonder my strawberries are! Prolific little plants. No one has told them that August is not strawberry season so they don’t know better. We won’t tell them either.
The butternut squash has all but taken over the flower patch with its broad leaves and trailing vine. No flowers yet.
Tiny Tim tomatoes are plentiful but very green. When they ripen, we will be knee deep in them!
It may look, from the photos, that I’m spending time enjoying the summer outdoors, playing with my granddaughter and my daughter, and I am – a little…but mostly, I am studying, studying, studying…thankful for brief recesses and distractions of loveliness around me.
How is your summer going?
