Now....It's Nice.

6-15-10 VERMONT: The reunion was great. We had a house-full, nine guests, and everyone got along well, including one couple we had not seen in fifty years. We also hosted an afternoon party for about twenty five classmates and their sig-o’s. The gardens got many kudos. The weather was fairly dismal, but it could have been worse. It was cold, overcast and occasionally rainy, but our party was dry—weather wise.

There was actually 0.4 inches of rain over the whole span from Thursday to Tuesday. Today, of course, is sunny, warm with a brisk breeze, and everything has dried out.

This morning I said that I wouldn’t do anything more than watch the dew evaporate, but I ended up doing a little weeding, what else, staked a few plants, filled a dog hole, [bad boy, Gus], thinned the corn to one stalk per hill. The corn is about a foot high and seems happy. Almost all the tomatoes have little green marble-sized fruit.

In the pond, tiny baby fish, looking like straight pins, and half inch crayfish are hanging out in the shallows.

New blooms: rhododendron, early hosta, baptisia, first phlox.


The roses have popped.

Indian Paint Brush, comes in yellow, orange, and red.