It was just one week ago that we picked our first ripe tomato.

The chaste tree is just past its fullest glory. The late sun was lighting up the flowers, but then, a rainbow. Or two…

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*