Before the rain yesterday, I did more work on the walkway under the deck replacing broken bricks with field stone.
When the culvert was cleaned out by the town a month of so ago, the road crew dumped the load of sand and dirt that came out of the culvert on a swampy area of the pasture. Today I started spreading it around with a rake and shovel which was a hot, sticky, sweaty job that I nearly finished, and it nearly finished me. I downed about three quarts of ice tea afterwards. I’ll let it get rained on and settle for a few weeks before I do the rest.
Before the shoveling, Judy and I picked wild blackberries and had the first few ripe tomatoes. The blue berries are almost gone.
New blooms: aster, rusty foxglove, pickerelweed in the pond. The last two have been out for about a week, but I forgot to mention them.
'Moulin Rouge' sunflower.
Aphrodite Fritillary Butterfly on Joe Pye Weed. Something took a bite out of one of the hind wings, but check out the tongue!
Digitalis ferruginea, Rusty Foxglove
1 comment:
i love blood-like sunflowers ! i tried to grow a few some years ago.
the butterfly scenes are beautiful.
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