IMG_3667, originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl.

This was taken the last time a Harry Potter book was released. Can you tell we’re getting excited about book #7? 🙂

zinnia, originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl.

Photo: Closeup of a bright pink zinnia flower

Last night I was up most of the night with semi-awful phantom pains. Not so bad that I was screaming (which happens occasionally), but bad enough that my hip and leg were spasming at regular intervals and keeping me from sleeping soundly. So I am a bit tired and a bit testier than usual today (that, coupled with the realization at 4 am that I’d left the water running when I was soaking a friend’s garden yesterday evening, grrrr–but fortunately when I got out there early this morning I found that another gardener had turned off the water for me! whew).

So, I went out to the garden much earlier than usual this morning. And it’s an overcast day and just perfect for toodling around out there. So I picked a passle of tomatoes, cut some flowers, pulled weeds, and just enjoyed watching the dew drip from the leaves of the plants. It was just what I needed after a very long and uncomfortable night.

on the right, originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl.

From here you can see my garden on the right: the sign, some flowers, Ned the elephant, and the peach tree way in the backity back.

on the left, originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl.

In all of its weedy glory. This is the view over the gate and to the left. You can see some tomatoes, squash, peppers, etc.

sunflower, originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
~Maori Proverb

pink & green, originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl.

These bright flowers are ‘cherry’ nasturtiums. They are a neon pinky-red color, though the lighting in this photo shows them as a paler pinkish hue. They bring me joy every time i walk in my front door, where they bubble out of their huge pot and send trailers up the wall and across the sidewalk…

peachy-orangey-red, originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl.

Went on a short trip to my favorite plant nursery today. Today I was feeling like bright pink, red, and yellow. I chose a few new flowers for the garden, including this one!

dandy-lion, originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl.

Photo: closeup of a dandelion clock

When I was a kid it was such a treat to blow the fuzz off of a dandelion clock. I still enjoy it, but not when I find them in my garden (hmmmm…do you think it any coincidence that they only seem to pop up in the children’s area?)

clematis, originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl.

Picutre: closeup of two purple clematis flowers on a vine.

Doesn’t the inside of the lower flower look rather threatening?? 🙂

french breakfast, originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl.

Photo: a photo of my breakfast last Saturday. A brownish colored softboiled egg sitting in a white ceramic eggcup. The ‘cap’ of the egg is removed and the yolk is showing through. A white mug is in the background.

On weekends we enjoy eating French-style around here. John softboils the eggs, toasts a baguette and brews some of his super-good lattes for the grownups and steamed milk w/vanilla or lavender for the kiddoes. I just sit back and enjoy. 🙂