Valerie, Maggie and Lucy all arrived on Saturday, Maggie from Boston by bus, and Val and Lucy from NYC by car. We all watched Meet The Press this morning.
We are overwhelmed by tomatoes, but are keeping up with the corn.
We walked around the pasture yesterday. The milkweed, and ferns and mint, are all regrowing since the since the pasture was mowed in early July. Many of the milkweed leaves showed defects, and closer looks revealed lots of monarch caterpillars on the milkweed. Most of them were small, half an inch long or less, but some were quite big. We found a monarch chrysalis on one of the Asclepias incarnata in the garden.
New blooms: sedum, Joe Pye weed.
Monarch chrysalis in the center, the pod to its left is a developing seed pod of the milkweed.
Sedum, first one to open, the rest will be opening in the early fall.
Joe Pye weed just starting. These are over six feet tall.
First aster, another late season bloomer.
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