Can you remember a moment or a day that everything felt calm and peaceful?  A time that you wanted to hold onto for as long as you could?  Today felt like like that for me.  When you go without something you need for a while, there is a greater appreciation when it returns.  Today there was no rain in sight, no deep gloomy overcast, even though the weather alert radio sounded off three times in the early morning hours with severe storm mornings, hail, lightning, and probable power outage with trees down.  There actually was a sunrise this morning.  I drove to the Murphy farmers market after breakfast for arugula, most of mine have bolted, and her new mustard greens for lunch today.  Also visited the English lady for a few of her fresh baked pastries.  As soon as I got home, I headed to big garden to plant the new Coreopsis I had just bought at the farmers market.  Also planted pineapple sage planted which have lovely red trumpet flowers late summer.  Hummingbirds love them.  Mulched some of the other things growing, put up the CVP pipe structure that Cliff built for his tomato plant and puttered around doing other things that need done in the garden. I noticed a pretty bell-shaped flower deep in the woods that looked like one of my foxgloves.  It was a foxglove.  Went into the woods and pulled it up.

 They're wonderful.  They seed themselves everywhere.  Tomorrow I'll replant this one in the morning when it's cooler.

The Blairsville Farmers Market opens in two weeks but this year a group of farmers started online selling their goods before the opening.  I've been purchasing a few things each week. This week I chose fresh picked strawberries and sourdough Italian Tuscan bread.  My goat farmer sold out on goat ricotta cheese. Home from that outdoor market, made a quick lunch of fresh sauteed greens and chicken breast and back to the garden for another hour.  Closed up the she-sheds and put my feet up on the back porch by three.  Eighty-three degrees and the breeze picked up.  

Poured a small glass of white wine and sat on the back porch just enjoying this day.  Only one regret......that I couldn't share this peaceful day with Cliff.

The front birdbath is cleaned every couple of days but I have one yellow finch that insists on drinking out of 

the ant catch filled with water above this hummingbird feeder.  So I keep it filled and clean for him.

I just walked down to the garden to water newly transplanted flowers and close up the gate.  Bunny was on the outside  of the fence eating new weed growth and watching me close his gate.  Too bad bunny.