The air is fresh, and the sun has come out giving the world that special glow that only comes with a good scrubbing of a prolonged and gentle rain. Even the grasses have revived and are rising to the occasion!

Don’t you love days like these?

Well, maybe the neighbors dogwood will take a bit longer… 😦

But don’t you just love that brand new tree house! I makes me wish to be a child again, how about you? 😉

~ Herbs in the garden ~

Umbels of Bronze Fennel

The cooling blue of Borage

~ Vegetables ~

Asparagus refreshed by the rain arises to catch the sun and store it away deep down underground, keeping it there in its roots for next spring.

This morning I see that the runner beans, having been stunted and scorched in the drought, now race to catch up.

~ Flowers ~

We approach the new gate leading into the goose yard, and beyond are the herb and vegetable gardens. There stands Miss Becky, a weather tough form of Rudbeckia, who grew to a mammoth six feet tall! (I suspect her roots grew equally deep into the earth to sustain her.)

Miss Becky!

Turning to go another direction I pass the blackberry vines and discover…

a surprise pair of naked ladies where there were none before! I suspect they were kicked closer to the surface when Bob rototilled this section of the garden in early spring. I await their grand opening.

~ The Geese ~

My little gaggle will be the first to tell you, that the newest grass shoots are the most tender and fine. 😉 Foreground L to R: Little Dorrit, Miss Hissster, Polly, Background: Georgie and Frellnick.