Flower power!

 UPDATE: 🎂 Caitlin's flowers arrived Friday! Happy Momma! What do you give the woman who has everything? We haven't been out anywhere to shop. 

Caitlin had a surprise. She told me they were all going out to dinner. JL fooled her. He'd invited one of her good friends and her family for dinner and cake! Jo made the upside down pineapple cake. 

 

I'm still fatigued and babying my vocal cords. Joe is doing better, but a residual cough. 

I was down at the trailcams and the mushrooms are beginning to emerge. I haven't decided what to do with my tree trunk. It was encroaching on the goldfish pond. 

 

Hibiscus and roses!

Cinnamon's favourite place is the garage. I know there are mice friends in there. We don't want them in the house. They get into the garbage cans and can't get out. He prefers the top of the car as a vantage point.

My ONE pumpkin is doing well.

The cherry tomatoes are still bearing fruit. In the sunrise, I spotted a strange double spider web. It almost looks like an owl.

I've only seen two Monarch caterpillars. This is #2. I'm sure we have more. 

Katydid, I think, on the pumpkin leaf:

I was sitting on the back deck, reading, when I heard a bird. Merlin told me it was Osprey. The thumbnail is from their nest which is just down the road. If you run the video you can hear them talking to one another.

osprey pair Aug 16 from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.