The Mountain Thymes

 Temperature was 63 this morning!  A lovely start to this sunny day.  Hummingbirds were fighting over flower blooms early this morning and the raccoon got into the back porch nectar feeders in the night to drank all the nectar.  It hasn't touched the feeders all spring or summer but now it's time to take them in each evening at dark before I locked up the porch doors. Early signs of seasonal changes.   Busy in the front gardens.......   She's eating weeds between the pineapple sage plants.  They will begin to shoot red trumpet-like flowers in late August. Such a beautifully peaceful sight. Pruning the forsythia for me. Drinking from the ground water dish.     Before she came to the garden I had a doe with her fawn spend time browsing around and then later another doe wandered up from the woods heading toward Charlie's yard. I planted more moon flowers yesterday in the fenced garden.  They can climb the garden wind vane in the f...

 Some mornings I spend a couple of hours in the hill garden, as opposed to the kitchen garden in the driveway, just enjoying everything that grows in the garden and the lush surrounding trees.  Even the "weeds" moving with the gentle morning breeze are pleasant and I don't have a need to destroy everything that doesn't serve my purpose.  A few weeks ago I paid a young man to weed whack the whole yard as it was out of control, too much for me to clean up with a whimpy whacker. This morning I started pulling weeds in the garden around the butterfly plants, pulled up the rotted tired zucchini and summer squash plants to toss into the woods, and found a few green bean plants that I planted late May and have ignored them because with all the rain and cloudy days we had before this dry period, things weren't thriving. To my surprise I picked a serving for me to fix up for today's lunch.  No rot, not blemishes, just beautiful beans.  After clearing weeds from a vacan...