Which One Made You Laugh?

 

Book Recommendation

 Actually an author recommendation: Raynor Winn.

Her first book, a memoir, is The Salt Path.  It's followed by The Wild Silence and the newest one is Landlines. [Not published yet in US but someone local purchased it in UK earlier this year and donated it to our library.]

I've read them all and find them incredibly engrossing, touching, and prescient.

Start with The Salt Path to understand what led her and her husband to walk the South West Coast Path in England.

Blooming

 Tuesday morning the first blooms of the day lilies opened.

I tried to take a selfie to show the flower stalks are taller than I am - so that's taller than 5'2".

I've never had day lilies that tall that I can recall.

The pansies are still blooming and the Hosta garden is filling out really well this year.

My stepping stones are being covered by creeping thyme.  This is the second season for the thyme.

The spider wort blooms in the morning and is loving all the rain.

I have a set of volunteer sunflowers that I hope the ground hog doesn't take out.

I managed to get to weed and deadhead in a window when the sun was out on Tuesday morning.  As I write this I'm still dripping from the humidity and the sky is darkening to bring more rain.

Very Wet

 We have had lots of rain.

Here's the rain gauge this Tuesday morning showing 2.5 inches for Monday.

It's raining more this morning as I write this.

Haven't had to water those pots of annuals very much that I planted two weeks ago.