Sunny and Warm.

6-27-11 VERMONT: It actually did rain again last night, but only a trace accumulation. Today was beautiful and summery. I was outside all day. The corn looks fine, and I went ahead, a bit early, and thinned them down to one stalk per hill. All the tomatoes are growing nicely, but not much fruit yet, the nights may be too cool.

I planted the new day lilies, ‘Grandmothers Love’, ‘Blueberry Breakfast’, ‘Pale Peach’, and ‘Summer Wine’ in the day lily bed. The bed is next to an old wall and digging there means pulling out rocks. The rocks end up as a bed border. I also planted two Hepatica americana between pavers on the terrace. I cleaned up the spot where the maple tree came down, graded the area and put down some sod, that I had banked last year, around the remaining maple roots. I’ll seed the rest.

New blooms: ‘Purple Rain’ salvia.


Have you seen this guy at your feeder?

Or this one?

Probably not. They are from Botswana, part of Ken and Carol's pix from their recent safari. They and other pix are available at the web site below. See lions, leopards, jaguars, hyenas, hippos, giraffes, zebras, cape buffalo, lots of antelopes, elephants, spectacular birds and more. The picture quality is excellent.
http://kenweg.smugmug.com/Nature/Bowswana-2011/17731916_RwP2cZ#1353700019_Smd9t59