Anticipation

We will have sweet corn soon!



The ears are gettting filled out, but the kernels don't spray yet when you pierce them. So tonight we are watering with the soaker hose again. It's been so very dry here.

I have some volunteer Roma tomato plants in my garden this year. The plants are doing beautifully.



Tomatoes have been slow to get going here, because the weather has been so cool. But there are small green tomatoes in my garden now.

My dill is huge.



Now... don't look at those... weeds. Yes, I need to weed my garden.

So, my dill. I planted cucumbers in hopes of getting a bunch of baby ones to make into pickles. But something ate all but the center of my cucumber plants earlier this summer - probably deer. So those plants basically had to start over. I don't think my cucumbers will coincide with my dill, if the cucumbers ever do well. So unless I buy some tiny cucumbers at a farmer's market soon, I don't think I'm going to use that dill. I do love homemade dill pickles.

Perennials

My flower garden is moving along through its seasons. The lilies I posted a picture of earlier this summer, when they were just starting to bloom, bloomed big and beautifully - but I forgot to take a picture then.

The yellow flowers bloomed well, too, and still look great:


The thistle-like perennial I got from a neighbor has purple flowers on it now:



And these poker-like flowers have been blooming a long while, too:


I really need to get my flower book out and try to remember what these plants were! These were all shared by generous gardeners, so I've promptly forgotten what they said they were giving me.

More Flowers

Some flowers in my perennial garden are blooming. Take a look at the lilies my sister-in-law gave me as transplants last fall!



These ones were transplants from a neighbor. I'm not quite sure what they are anymore!



And I planted some parsley seeds in there for good measure, and they're coming up, too.



I never did get annuals planted in my flower garden, but if I just put down more mulch, it will look alright. And it will help keep the weeds down.

Campfire

Last night we made s'mores over a fire. The weather was perfect yesterday - heaven on earth. My husband and the kids got all kinds of work done while I was at work. We did a little more after supper. Then we decided to have some fun, since the kids had worked so hard and so willingly. So we made a fire in our backyard. Usually we wait until the sun goes down, but we decided not to this time. It is easier to see what you're doing with the food when it isn't dark!

I had finally gotten some Campfire marshmallows and Hershey bars, both of which I feel comfortable feeding to my peanut-allergic daughter. So we had a great treat. And we only got bit by mosquitoes a few times. Those have finally hatched since we had some rain.