Showing posts with label Home: garden august rain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Home: garden august rain. Show all posts

Saturday, June 18, 2011

And I've Seen Rain

If only I hadn't promised myself to stay off the topic of weather.  Belinda has awarded me dual citizenship because she says I am as obsessed with the topic as any Brit.

So I can't tell you about the thunderstorms and lightening that have surrounded us and lit up the skies for the past two nights.  Of course this also relieves me of the topic of the plaster falling from the kitchen ceiling. 




But I can show you the pictures I downloaded this morning of the garden after the rain.  I wondered where GG had disappeared to last night as I was making dinner. Now I know.  She is clearly obsessed with the purple outside / green inside beans. Not many make it into the kitchen proper, they're too good eaten off the bush.



And the figs are back. GG has taken down the maple tree in the back yard and the figs are lapping up the sunshine again.


A little corner of the path planted with oregano rotundifolium.  It spills, it thrills and it smells like a Mediterranean island.



Until I saw this picture I had no idea we had a tiny watermelon growing on the fence.  As soon I I saw this download I rushed out into the garden to see for myself.  It's true, it's true, the sugar babies are on the way.

I hope your weekend is filled with unplanned moments and a mouthful of fresh fruit.

xo jane

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Seize The Day


I'm sitting at the computer listening to rain, gentle summer rain. Not the intense storm of this morning that turned 7:00am into midnight, but a light. steady rainfall. The windows and doors are open, the pup is sleeping in the kitchen cool and content, GG is in the shower after a hot day in a client's garden and I'm just chilling.

But the happiest of all is the garden. Parched, strangled in parts by the dreaded bindweed, batted about by our recent storms, tonight it is at peace. Hopefully it is as content as I am. Right here, right now.


I just went to the door to let the cat in and saw my first hummingbird of the summer.

Amen. The End.