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.
