Sunday musings

I drove to Cleveland at dawn on Wednesday. The sun was a brilliant red ball in the sky, camoflaged by clouds, so that one could actually look at it. As it grew, pink enveloped the clouds; a cotton candy sunrise.

After the sun was up for a while, mist from evaporating dew rose from the cornfields. I was filled gratitude for the gift of being up early enough, and driving for a long enough distance to appreciate it.

There's a reason why they call these butterfly bushes.

This one got a regular photo shoot, preening as I pointed the camera.

I have two kinds of poppies now in my garden. These are a lovely crimson.

The magnolia is reblooming. Just like me... :-)

A harbinger of things to come....I am so looking forward to my dahlias. I planted five different colors this year. Red, pink, white, yellow and orange.

Mutant lilies...they bloom later than the others, but are so much prettier.

Green beans are growing! I ate my first home grown radish yesterday and plucked my first tomato today. I have a four inch summersquash almost ready to pick, and look what else is blooming...

Peas! I planted two kinds...sugar snap and snowpeas. Betty's garden is not just for show this year. I'm contributing to world hunger. So...why am I on a diet?

I love to listen to the birds in the morning by the fishpond.

Sitting by the fishpond with my No Sex in the City girlfriends, we decided that the biggest fish needed a name, seeing as I've had him now for five years, ever since Magic Man and I built the pond. His name is Henry.

Jenny Wren approved the name.