The Garden

As much as running water makes things seem cool, you can almost see the heat in this photo.  I've never liked summer so this new trend of hotter summers is just plain wicked.

I get out early in the morning to garden, just as the sun comes up.  And it's still hot!

We finished putting the pebbles down between the stones on the patio.  I like it so much better now and the pebbles sure keep the weeds at bay.

The humidity has been awful too.  The pups are bored and hardly leave the house.

I water every day.  I am finding that plants that usually start dying back at the end of summer are already starting to die back now. Has anyone else noticed this?

Enlarging this patio last year was a really good decision.  It's made the whole area much more usable.

My celery is doing very nicely growing inside it's cage.  The groundhogs can't get to it!

This is another weird thing that has happened this year.  My lilies are growing like they are on steroids.  They are over 6 feet tall and each flower is larger than my head.

Why?  We've had very dry periods and then very rainy periods.  Maybe this is the reason?  You can smell them from the street.