The garden grows!

🥫🍌🍊Groceries: Red wrote about doing groceries! Well, more about NOT doing them! I used to do groceries. When I became pregnant with Caitlin (1979), I could no longer tolerate the smell of coffee! The grocery store made me want to throw up. My first accountant husband took up the cause. As a single mom, in 1993, I had to do it all over again. Fast forward to 2005, when my second accountant husband JB retired, he took up the cause. I didn't really take it back! When he had surgery in 2014, I had to do it. No problem. He took it back from me when he recovered! COVID made things simpler. When we needed groceries I would do an online order. It was great. JB usually does it once a day, these days. 

Anyway, the garden. How glorious!

The birds out front have been amazing. Red-eyed vireos, and goldfinches in the horse chestnut tree. 

 

Across the highway, a lovely field of flowers, Dame's Rocket. I transplanted some, and they thrive.

I put the garbage out early Monday morning. There was a ribbon snake. They are beautiful snakes. Just a lovely colour. I went around behind it, to scare it out of the garage, but it was less than eager. I picked it up and put it into the planter. 

I found blonde Butch in the back. They are around infrequently. 

blonde butch June 10 from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

 

Picture it: the wild flowers are bladder campion. (I thought it was bladderwort!) I caught Bambi eating them. You can see how dry the lawn has been. Happily, we've had 22mm rain (25mm= 1") over the past two of days. What a relief.

 

She ran off when she saw me. Camera shy, perhaps! 

young doe from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

Peonies! 

Poppies!

I don't remember these flowers. I took a photo of the lily buds because, well, we live in deer country! I think I might get lilies this year, though! the new fence seems to be working. 

The allium are safely growing inside the fence. In the background, the clematis are in bloom. 

This end of the garden has one hosta poking out from the fencing. Bambi can have this one! Hopefully, the one inside the fence will be safe. They love the hostas best!

We had front yard visitors, to make my point. The bucks are unusual in the front yard. They must be frequent visitors. 

2 bucks June 11 from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

Things are poppying!

The season carries on. The horse chestnut blooms have given way to baby horse chestnuts!

Monday morning the two bags of garbage had been attacked in the garage! This has happened before, you'd think we'd learn! Butch raccoon is a frequent visitor, and we'd not closed the door at dusk. Blonde Butch always visits around 4 p.m.

We had a parcel delivery. The young man commented on how nice the garden smells, and how great it looks. He said, "Take from a guy who visits a couple hundred houses!" Isn't that sweet? 

We don't entertain, nor do we know many people in the community. This is nice feedback. Enjoy them while you can!

So far so good – my fence is working. I may be able to see my Asiatic Lilies bloom this year.

I've two Yucca plants throwing up a stalk. I'm looking forward to those blooms.

My last photo of the phoebe family. I noticed one in the yard later.

Silly me. We laughed and laughed. I thought last Sunday was Father's Day. The cats bought Joseph Brian a book about cats. Snuggle Bears presented it.

I've noticed the hummingbird landing on the guy wire. I wondered what a video would look like. I had my chance!  ♪♫♩ Bird on a wire!

hummingbird from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

I repainted my scultpure. I use rust spray paint. After that I moved it, having to take the flowers off, in order to have it face the deck. We're spending a lot of time up on the deck. Fewer bugs.

When I removed the bricks keeping it stable I found a few ants! I was thinking of someone's comment years ago. How typical of me to have some lovely 'AW' photos, and then yucky ones!

ants from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.