Preversary.

6-22-18 VERMONT: Another beautiful day after a night in the fifties. It was sunny all day with a few fluffy clouds. Actually we need more rain, and I’ve been watering the veggies and new plantings. It looks like everybody else in the country is getting all the rain they want and then some.

I trimmed and pruned around the roses and cut paths in the pasture today. Yesterday I pruned the trees above the pond. I’m slowly catching up the yard work.

Today is June 22, a preversary, is that a word, for next year’s big event. The roses and the peonies never looked better.

New blooms: Maltese cross, valerian, yellow devil.


The last peonies to open are these red ones. Last because they get the least sun in early spring.

The pale pink peonies are next to monarda, which opens in August.

I call these roses the fence roses because they grow between the fence and wall...

and spill onto both.

It seems like a day for red and this Purple Finch was at the feeder, that might be the missus on the other side. House finches are common here, but purple finches are less frequent visitors.

Sunset at 9 PM, surprised us with more red.