The ten day weather forecast on weather.com has changed dramatically in its predictions for next Saturday. I have watched it show sunshine, showers and now -- isolated thunderstorms. You have to wonder why the website even bothers putting anything up for a day that's many weather systems away. Does it ever remain the same for the entire ten day period?
At least this morning was as last night's forecast predicted for us: sunny and warm. Good chicken release weather. (With a spectacular sunrise.)
Good breakfast on the porch weather.
And with a gentle breeze, good outdoor work weather. I methodically work through small tasks (no more big ones -- those are all done for the season), enjoying the summer-like feeling of a garden's abundance.
In fact, I enjoy it so much, that time slips by too quickly and when I ask Ed to go to the downtown Farmer's Market with me, it's already past noon. We're nearing the last few minutes of vendor presence. Just enough time to buy oyster mushrooms, cheese, strawberries and two bunches of the cheapest of cheap flowers -- ones that have staying power: daisies and clover, sold here:
We're back on the porch for a p. b. and j. lunch. It is at once quiet (anyone who uses our country road to get to the lake has gone by already and no one is coming back yet) and noisy (the wind moving in between all our trees is never quiet), in the best of ways. Had I followed the Sorede (south of France) habit of having a glass of rosé for lunch, I would be dozing in the sling back chair by now. But, habits belong to locations and I would no more sip rosé here for lunch than I would eat a croissant for breakfast. Funny how that works.
In the evening I lay down my daffodils stalks. One of the toughest things about mingling daffodils with your perennials is that your perennials are up and running and the daffodils are long gone and yet you're not allowed to cut them back until they turn yellow. I can never hold out that long, but I try! This year they got four weeks of post bloom life. Over the next few days I'll be cutting them back completely. I am SO done with them!
Time to put away the shovel, the clippers, the hose. The buckets of soil, the cartloads of chips. Cheepers, go back to your coop!
They do go back. Eventually.
At least this morning was as last night's forecast predicted for us: sunny and warm. Good chicken release weather. (With a spectacular sunrise.)
Good breakfast on the porch weather.
And with a gentle breeze, good outdoor work weather. I methodically work through small tasks (no more big ones -- those are all done for the season), enjoying the summer-like feeling of a garden's abundance.
In fact, I enjoy it so much, that time slips by too quickly and when I ask Ed to go to the downtown Farmer's Market with me, it's already past noon. We're nearing the last few minutes of vendor presence. Just enough time to buy oyster mushrooms, cheese, strawberries and two bunches of the cheapest of cheap flowers -- ones that have staying power: daisies and clover, sold here:
We're back on the porch for a p. b. and j. lunch. It is at once quiet (anyone who uses our country road to get to the lake has gone by already and no one is coming back yet) and noisy (the wind moving in between all our trees is never quiet), in the best of ways. Had I followed the Sorede (south of France) habit of having a glass of rosé for lunch, I would be dozing in the sling back chair by now. But, habits belong to locations and I would no more sip rosé here for lunch than I would eat a croissant for breakfast. Funny how that works.
In the evening I lay down my daffodils stalks. One of the toughest things about mingling daffodils with your perennials is that your perennials are up and running and the daffodils are long gone and yet you're not allowed to cut them back until they turn yellow. I can never hold out that long, but I try! This year they got four weeks of post bloom life. Over the next few days I'll be cutting them back completely. I am SO done with them!
Time to put away the shovel, the clippers, the hose. The buckets of soil, the cartloads of chips. Cheepers, go back to your coop!
They do go back. Eventually.
love that last one. looks their plan was to follow Ed into the house. glorious photos of your day....all of them.
ReplyDeleteThey are ever optimistic. Every encounter with us is a potential for a treat. Even though with Ed, they should know better! Thank you for taking the time to comment in your rather stressful month.
DeleteYour pictures look so 3-dimensional today, even on my little laptop.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Lee I. It's the way the light played out!
DeleteStunning photos, especially no. 1. wow.
ReplyDeleteThe "cheepers" moseying back to their coop (eventually) just crack me up. Animals are so funny... I firmly believe they are WAY smarter than we think or know about... every evening at exactly the same minute... 7:45 p.m.... my dog Kip gets up from his semi-nap (while we are watching our nightly TV, either baseball or British DVDs, and he moseys on over to me, shaking the sleep out of his eyes and furs, and stands there, looking at me with those beautiful brown collie-dog eyes saying "It's 7:45 Mum... time for our before-bedtime-cookie!" so we pause the DVD, Paul goes out and gets them each a MilkBone cookie, and they come back and are happy for the rest of the evening.
But 7:45 is cookie time for them and it never fails - they know it's that time every single night! How? They are amazing...
Am praying for beautiful weather for next week...
Thank you Bex! Right now I'll settle for not pounding rain!
DeleteHow do your pups (affectionately called that) handle dayilight savings time? :)
Oh, that sunrise photo! If I had such a wide view of the sunrise, I'd get up for it. :)
ReplyDeleteThe garden is exuberant! It's going to be in a WEDDING!
It's a gorgeous view but for one thing: the farmers who farm the fields to the east of us rented a portable potty for the season and the way it is positioned, it ruins 90% of possible sunrise photos. I have to stand strategically so that there is a tree, or something that will obscure it! I'm thinking of going there next Saturday and asking if we could all maybe pick it up and move it so that every east facing wedding photo wont have that worry! :)
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