Blue behind blue

Some days are just perfect.

Morning Glories are blooming!

This year the morning glories germinated and produced lots of vines.  There's a window behind the vines on the side of the garden cottage; it's nearly all obscured by the vines.

The vines have been growing well, but have not had any blooms.  Culprits for this are too much water or too much fertilizer; we had not too much of either one.  So we just waited patiently.  Finally, over the past few days there have been new blooms each morning.  Yesterday (this picture) there were fifty-one blue blooms.

Sunshine (and hot)

Although it is getting hot and dry now, the Sunflowers seem to be happy-- and huge.

Because it is so dry we're watering the garden from the river to keep stress from our well and protect our well water.  The little pump you see here does a nice job of pumping water up the river bank and all the way to the garden.  It's one of the few 2-cycle engines that starts reliably and easily.

It's Summer!

Every June begins summertime.  Update:  those blackberries are ripe and ready for picking.  Plenty for you—there are way more of them than birds to eat them.
The River is ready for your enjoyment.

Take a look at the Garden.  It is doing very well this year.

And see the harvest after everything was picked just two days earlier.

Also doing really well are Sunflowers.  These all germinated on their own-- evidently from last year's seeds.  Several of them were transplanted to the flower garden when they were just a few inches high,   Reminds you of "... look at me now ..." from Karmin's viral video of the same name?

Though you may be wishing for better weather where you are, it's been great here at the River.  Here's those sunflowers for you to enjoy.

Soon it will be summer!

The neighborhood is alive with crops and flowers.
See a sampling for yourself.  Be sure to see the pair of Goldfinches.

Daffodils bask in the sunshine after dawn

Here's what we see this morning:

• Dwarf daffodils in a row
• Butterfly bushes - trimmed and newly mulched - waiting for summertime
• Tractor, backed up to a cedar-tree pole, waiting to have its post-hold digger dismounted (it's behind the Garden Cottage, in front of the tiny red car)
• Blue sky.  You can see it, thanks to Photoshop HDR ("High Dynamic Range")

and then there was... Sunshine!

These daffodils were overheard whispering to each other this morning:

Wow! Feel the sunshine.  It's about time!  We struggled to poke up from the ground back when the humans were still wearing their long-johns.  We've been up here for the past several days, shivering in the crummy cold clammy cloudy weather.**


But whistle a new tune today!  We're feeling warm and toasty.


Do daffodils need suntan lotion?  Guess not, the sun's still not far enough north.
Anyway, we're happy campers; hope you are, too.

** see Johnny Carson skit: "Clerra Clifford my cleaning lady saw Claude cooper from cleveland the kleptomaniac clopped my clean copper clappers kept in my closet and if i find him....I'll clobber him!"