The sweet pea flowers of many colors, with their sweet aroma, are lovely to behold.
At right angles to the fence with the sweet peas is a long stretch of fence covered with blooming Confederate jasmine. The sweet aroma near the jasmine is nearly overpowering. The blooms are best admired from a distance.
Pictured above are white flowers on a wild rosebush. The plant requires no special care at all as opposed the hybrids which Grandpère has tried to grow in the past, which needed treatment for black spot and other diseases due to our rainy and humid climate. Even with intensive TLC, the bushes didn't thrive.
A few of Grandpère's tomato plants are shown above, along with marigolds to keep the bugs away from the plants without the use of insecticides. A redbird is causing trouble to the
There's Diana in all her one-eyed splendor with the long shadows of the late afternoon. Grandpère stands with my son on the left.
Diana went for her annual checkup and vaccinations this week. The vet said she's in fine shape for a 15 year old dog. I had no idea she was 15 years old, not having looked back at her veterinary records for quite some time. I'd been saying she was around 12 years old. As many of you know, Diana has only one eye, with a cataract, and she is going deaf. She can still see out of her one eye, but not well.
Aw, Diana. Good girl!
ReplyDeleteLucky for Diana she found Dog Heaven when she found you and Grandpère. Judging from that picture, she seems to enjoy her job as Overseer of Gardens.
ReplyDeleteJCF, not that good. Diana's been walking through GP's garden, and he's not amused.
ReplyDeleteShe does still seem to have a good quality life. She sleeps a lot on one or the other of her L. L. Bean dog beds. Before we found the Bean beds, she tore to pieces every bed we bought her, but she adores the Bean model.
Well done Diana, and also Grandpere for having such very fine and healthy-looking tomato plants.
ReplyDeleteCathy, I can't wait for the taste of the home-grown tomatoes. They're one of my favorite treats, along with freshly picked corn. GP eats the corn uncooked sometimes. Right off the stalk, raw corn tastes pretty good.
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