Our Overgrown Yard

We've pretty much given up on our yard. The lawn mower is no match for this summer. The rain has made the yard all soggy and the brush grows up too fast. It gets caught in the mower and chokes it up every two feet.

So instead, it is all wind and free, like Klimt's garden. There are so many spider webs that one can scarcely cross a space of 5 feet without becoming entangled. I can see them from my kitchen window, long diagonals across the width of the yard, catch the sun now and again in a breeze. The garden is overgrown, but somehow still faithfully producing tomatoes and watermelon. Clover and various ground covers now take the place of grass in most of the yard.

I can appreciate a well-kept yard. All neat and even, nice for picnics and lawn parties. But this is beautiful to me. There's so much to explore!

It's taking over the driveway!

There's a wasp nest in the fence. Yikes. 

This is a good 6 inches deep.

Uh, yeah, these chairs need to go.

These flowers are loving this moist, shady summer.

Watermelons grown in red clay. Sweet, if small.

Pokeberries. 

This garden spider is almost 2 inches, including legs.

The kids pretty much stay in the driveway.

Clover, snakeberries and grasses mingle.

The inevitable guest. 

Tomatoes!

It's been raining too much for us to have the best crop this year. But still, some good cherry tomatoes have grown in our little backyard garden. Bea is so into this. She harvested some this morning and already ate her favorite one! Here she is bright and early.

There was a fat little bunny in the garden this morning. I saw him when I was fixing the coffee and hollered out the window. He ran off, but came back a few minutes later. Guess we'll have to put up a scarecrow. 

Gardening With Kids

We are first timers here so our garden is tiny and barely legit, but it's already a wonderful experience! Look at Beatrice go! 

We have red bell pepper, jalapenos, tomatoes (including cherry!) and watermelon. I think we are going to add some squash. Hopefully, it will all grow and feed us and next year we'll have three times as much! We have one bed now, but plan on a total of four. 

Home and Garden

If you thought that last post was boring, get a load of this. Here are some images of my house. It is clean. You may also see the view out my kitchen window below.

Outside Family

I know it is exam week. I know I have studying to do and projects that are still unfinished. But weekends are for being outside and planting things, not sitting inside making my head spin with deadlines.

It was overcast today and drizzly. Cool and green. We planted a tree and prepped for summer gardening. I can't wait for some cherry tomatoes.

(James was in some pictures too, but I have to get him to OK them before I post them. Just being polite and all. :) If you think Amby looks mad in these, you are right. We were unable to figure out exactly what he wanted, but his muddy mocassins bothered him a lot. Maybe that's all it was.