Rainy Day.

7-7-26 VERMONT: It’s a nice cool rainy day, in the sixties. We got 0.25 inches so far. I already emptied the boat, one job after each rain is to dump the rainwater out of the boat. I have to refill a hummingbird feeder also. 

We went to Frost Gardens yesterday, a nursery that always closes in July and has a sale of all the stock that is unsold. I bought some stuff to work in the empty spots in the gardens. I got a spiderwort, ‘Sweet Kate’ Trascantia, two hybrid daylily, ‘Happy Returns’, Homercallis, two bee balm, Monarda didyma, and six cardinal flowers, Lobelia cardinalis and six poppies, Tangerine Jem. 

Hillary and Matt come tomorrow, and so will have plenty to do, as they already have the milkweed to plant. I’ve decided to pull the peonies out of the bed below the deck because they are getting overwhelmed by the other stuff and move them to the pond bank. Next weeks job. 

New blooms: first hosta, summer azalea, ox eye, false sunflower, more delphinium, hybrid daylily, bee balm, astilbe, hydrangea, St. Johns wort. 

Early morning, just before the sunrise. This is an unedited cell phone image.

Here's a closer look. It was all gone a few minutes later, and then I went back to sleep.

Hybrid daylily in red.

And another, two tone, with a fly.

Regular daylily with Japanese maple.

Ox eye on the pond bank.

Summer azalea. Ours are in these sweet, pastel colors in contrast to the vivid colors of the spring azaleas.

First of many hostas.