Tomato Update:
Pleased to report that they are doing well.~
(still organic, at the moment)



(Cat, however, needs some attention!)



One of my tuberous begonias has a bud.~
(woohoo!)



We're getting a nice mix of rain and sun.~



The plants love it!

Glimpses in my garden
(starting with my favorite 'beauty shot')













This is my first time growing tomatoes, and they're coming along pretty good, so far.~ I hope the cats keep the birds away from them! Then, all I'd have to worry about is the bugs...

Lazy Summer morning in the garden
(both blogs)
I took a half day off, last week, spending most of the morning on my porch, enjoying the garden for an hour or two. Just doin nuthin special, enjoying the perfect weather....
A morning well-spent, if you ask me...~





One of my moonflower vines (here in the photo below, it's sharing a pot with the tuberous begonias) got big pretty fast~ I've been able to transplant it to its home under my bedroom window, by now....



It grew faster than the one I had planted in the front of my house...interesting, considering it only got morning light, and the one in front of the porch got light from morning till around the noon hour.
(But the morning light reached this potted one about half an hour earlier, so maybe that was the difference?)

Sunlight and rain
The rest of my garden spots are doing pretty well~ here is part of the Artist's Garden, along with Aster (those cats allllways sneak into the frame when they see my about to take a photo~ hamming it up!)



SEe? Rugosus snuck in on this one!



(I got that phlox from my aunt~ it's been doing quite well, considering it lives by the sweltering concrete driveway, and we had that terrible drought, last year.)

When the rain comes
Later on in the week, the rains came in~ we've been getting a nice, soaking rain about once every two days, sometimes every day.



There are more photos at my flickr pages~ if you want to visit, just click on one of the photos, and it will take you there.

Sunday,
Early Summer,
Approaching twilight
(very tranquil)
(both blogs)













It is rainy and overcast, here today~ and downright chilly, right now! ~ I plan to take photos of my newest blooms in the garden, as soon as the weather remembers itself and gets back to sunny-ness!

I love a good, soft Summer rain....
(both blogs)



"Perfick!"
As this was coming to my house, I was watching a scene in "Darling Buds of May" where it started raining and Pop Larkin says it's 'soft as cobwebs'.

In God's garden


One of the few true blue wildflowers in the world~ the Dayflower.
They bloom in the day~ by late afternoon, they close up.
Hence, the name, "Dayflower".~
Natch.



It isn't Summer till I've squeezed a few wild impatiens' pods (aka, Jewelweed, "Touch-Me-Nots")!
Their wriggly-zinging when you pop them is highly addictive fun~ it sends those seeds flying!



Elmshoff Preserve~ the perfect spot to dream and think and read, etc.!



Dream on~ the Summer is still young, here in the Ohio Valley!

A note while I'm gone (both blogs)
I set up some "vacation" music on Ye Olde Playlist for you, till I get back!
(new music!! are you excited?!)

I put "Let 'Em In", "Silly Love Songs" and "Afternoon Delight" on there because when I was a kid, we were traveling by car to the beach one year (1976?), and we heard these songs on the radio again and again. So, by association, they are "vacation music", to me!

(Rumor had it that "Afternoon Delight" was actually about soap opera sex, but what did a little kid know about that? I didn't care. It was nothing but Goin-to-the-Beach Music to me!)

"When You Wish Upon A Star" by Jiminy Cricket always ends the WEBN fireworks display, at their bash in late Summer, so it's "summer" music to me~ and a lovely way to end the night, don't you think?

May you have a magically-sweet Summer ~

How I spent my Tuesday evening
(both blogs)

A walk on the trail...





...Ran into a veritable horde of butterflies~ there were so many of them, and they whirled around me so quick! I could hear their wings making little clicking noises, they were so fast!



(Video available on my flickr pages~ just click on one of the photos to go there)

...Up to the prayer labyrinth






...This cemetery nearby made me think of the old St. Joseph cemetery, where I always see the most beautiful sunsets, in Winter, as I'm coming home...



So, I went there during the sunset....



This is the first photo I took there.
I'll share more, later. ~

I'll be taking a little vacation, so enjoy yourself and your life till I get back on Monday!