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 vacant spot that gets good sun, I planted three more rows of green beans that had soaked all night and were anxious to start sprouting in the soil.  Garden soil is so warm I may see sprouts before next Sunday.  I placed a soaker hose in part of the garden where flowers are thriving which will benefit the beans during this drier period.  Weather maps show showers but they split and go around the mountain so it's dry here again.  

Ricky T. assembled my mail-ordered lattice and secured it in the garden.  I planted a climbing vine last year in that area but it never grew.  Earlier this year when I was weeding and getting soil ready for cucumbers I found that vine winding around weeds.  Can't remember what I planted.  Maybe purple clematis.  In another area of this garden I found last years carrots growing nicely.  

Firecracker marigolds and cone flowers from seeds.  I don't deadhead flowers until late fall because they reseed themselves and birds eat the seeds.  

 Chives will shoot out beautiful purple flowers soon and return every year.  The others are red salvia and Thai holy basil that return each season.  As soon as the salvia bloom hummingbird, bees and butterflies will be in the garden.  

A few butterfly plants and I think cosmos which I planted the seeds after the rainy weeks when the soil was nice and damp.  

Took a morning walk early one morning in town before the humidity kicked in.  This was after a heavy rain night and the river rose to the banks.  During the very rainy weeks the river rose up and covered the ball field and all the walking paths so the park was closed.  
 

Our abandoned neighborhood fawn.  It slept there last night.  Nikki and Charlie see it sleeping in their yard some mornings. I leave a low bowl of fresh water out because it's too short to reach the birdbath.

We also have twin fawns seen with their mother in the neighborhood.  There are a lot more deer this year. Since Ricky T. built the sturdy fence around my garden I haven't had bunnies or deer destroy and plants. 

Janice, Lynn and I are heading to a funeral service this evening for a former resident who owned a Pawn Shop on the 4-lane.  Her sister's family still lives on Clay Durrett.  She had a horse-riding accident and died Wednesday doing what she loved.