Almost Missed a Whole Week.

7-9-18 VERMONT: We had a big, 0.9 inches, rain when the heat wave broke. It was followed by a windy day with a rain of dead branches. One of those branches damaged our TV antenna out in the woods, which will be repaired today.

Alison and Lily have been here for a few days, and we went to Old City Falls in Strafford yesterday and walked the stream below the falls.

Before that they arrived, I had done a day of pruning and generated two cartloads of branches for the compost pile. I am, I think, almost caught up with pruning.

Today Anna and Gardner were here to meet with the tent man and contractors about siting the tent for the wedding and prepping and leveling that site this fall. It looks like the wedding plans are all set, or mostly set.

New blooms: another milkweed, delphinium, oxeye, daisy, monarda, hydrangea.


A hybrid daylily in vivid red with a yellow throat.

Still water offers reflections.

More reflections.

I did a bunch of pruning, this is one cart load on its way to composting.

Old City Falls has a double waterfall, high on the left and lower on the right.

Asclepias incarnata, butterfly weed, also swamp milkweed, also rose milkweed. The problem with common names is that the same plant has different names in different places and different plants may use the same common name.

Tiger moth hiding in the 'lawn'.