Waiting for this Black Beauty tomato to ripen…

He turned 65 today.

Digging for gold!

I made a dozen bouquets to share with my neighbors. I was so excited to start delivering them that I forgot to photograph the other six.

I finally found plants that will thrive by the AC unit, where they get full shade in the morning and baking full sun in the afternoon — Rudbeckia, Yarrow ‘Cerise Queen’, and Eryngium ‘Blue Glitter’. I’m also cultivating a wall of Big Bluestem grass in hope of keeping the AC unit in shade.

Such abundance in the spring garden —

Tomatoes

Greens and Sweet Peas

Snapdragon and Potatoes

— and I had already put so many of them on the porch floor for safekeeping…

… you come home and find a bale of hay on the porch.

• First daffodil
• Hyacinth
• First Vinca blossom
• First Creeping Phlox bloom
• Allium schubertii
• First Crocus in the yard
• Spring bulbs and Montauk daisy
• First yellow Crocus

The flower harvesting cups are washed and ready to store for the winter. *sigh*