How Do You Build an Ark?

7-8-13 VERMONT: The daily rains continue, last night it rained after a hot and muggy day, stopped this morning and then re-started with a torrential downpour as we were finishing our camp visit to grandd Lucy and a bunch of her friends at Aloha. The pizza disappeared so fast I thought it was an illusion.

Today’s rain stopped, at least for the moment, a short time ago in late afternoon. I went out and emptied the boat and rain gauge, 1.3 inches, and got my feet soaked in the process.

Yesterday I filled in some holes that Maizie dug, getting to be another daily occurrence, and then found some daylilies languishing under a stand of burning bushes, dug them up and re-planted them on the back of the pond where there are many other such clusters.

Of course there’s always some pruning and weeding to do.

New blooms: salvia ‘purple rain’ [out for a while], hollyhock, yarrow.


Hollyhocks, these are new, last years didn't survive the winter.

This hybrid daylily says 'peach' to me and that ant.

We had a clear night, before, after or before and after another rain.

Rosebay rhodos seem fine with the weather.