The weather has been fine and the gardens are showing it. I've added some photos to the slideshow at the bottom of the page—most of them were taken from my sky chair, looking up into the leaves overhead, or over at the rhododendrons in the side garden, or at Casey who is so happy to sit in soft green grass in the sun at my side. When I first got the chair in Tucson, he loved to jump up in it with me and sit in my lap. But now he's old and lame and can't leverage himself up there anymore, and if I haul him up myself he can't get comfortable and shifts and squirms until we both go nuts and I kick him back out. So now he contents himself with lying nearby. It's a little harder for me to get in and out of this chair now, too! Ten years do tell on a body.We put some fencing up around the expanded vegetable garden today—it won't keep any really enterprising rabbits out, but they'll at least have to make a little effort now to get to the goodies. And I put the rest of our feeble seedlings in the ground. Next spring I plan to get a good seed-starting set-up so we can maybe finally get enough of a headstart on the short growing season here to produce some real produce!
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This reminds me so much of a view I had of my own feet the other day. I was having my first swim of the season, floating on my back, enjoying the deep blue sky. Then I glance down past my feet to the pool deck and saw some of our bushes were fully in bloom. I held up my toes out of the water--painted the exact color of the flowers on the bush. I laid there for the longest time looking at my foot against the bush (wishing I had a camera). Although amusing, also very zen. One with nature or something. Good thing no one was watching me.
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