Thank you to all who served.....

We honor you all today with great thanks for your courage. To my husband, my brother, my sister, nephew, friends and all who heard the call to protect our freedom, thank you very, very much!

Please, may we be included in your garden?

Aren't these the most adorable sunflowers? I sit and mentally place them in the vegetable garden, then the fringe garden to the lawn, then.....well, I just don't have enough of them. Back to the nursery to get more. I've tried raising sunflowers from seed with no luck whatsoever.  I think they need more water when germinating than I give them, or should I forget to water, woooohooo!

Here is my favorite little whiptail lizard, she was annoyed because I was following her movements on the wall. Haven't seen her today, do you suppose that she finally had her babies? They are so tiny and so fast in a couple of days after birth. Have to be careful where we step the next few  days.

I don't remember the name of this iris but I adore the color. It is one of the ones that I thought had
no future when we dismantled the iris garden and moved the blue and white ones inside the south garden. Fooled me! Guess what will be moved come August? What a hit it will make in the center of the blue and whites!

And then she watered...some more

My continuing rant about the wind is still in effect. We have been having gusts from our usual breeze (7 to 14 mph) upward to occasional 46/59 mph. It dries everything out faster than one can imagine. Sooooo, in my photos you will sometimes see the ubiquitous watering hose lying around. As I can be quite lazy at times I don't always coil it up neatly. Here is an example, the garden yesterday.

 

The garlic is looking so healthy, I think I chose wisely on the kind we are growing this year. 

We have already eaten some of the early green garlic and it is wonderful. Needs a little weeding today! The garden is tiny compared to the one I had back East but as I'm a great many years older it takes me about the same amount of time to keep up with it. I also find that just sitting and plotting new garden amendments is very enjoyable! The mint has taken over as you can see at the bottom of the photo, out, out damned mint! It is delicious but how much can two people use in a year?

The Sweet Woodruff  has been blooming for about 10 days and it smells wonderful. I just love the funny faces on the pansies. The red Peonies are blooming and I'll cut them this afternoon and bring them in as we are to have a hail storm tonight. The Aquilegia is close enough to the wall that it might make it without help. We'll cover the apple tree and the tomato plants and then hope for the best.
Always something. I guess I'll go and water!