The Return of Grandpa's Dahlia

YES! It made it back for another summer! Some of our Dahlia's did not and we were so hoping this one would. It's the one we got from my grandpa's garden the Spring before last and KN planted it. Grandpa said the ones at his house didn't make it this year. This one now has 6 blooms on it - all are dinner plate sized. Might have to kick some bugs out and enter one in the community fair coming up.

Our Jack O Lantern Dahlia also made it back. They always look a little tattered and worn but the colors are nice and this little honey bee is very fond of this flower. Isn't she cute with her little fuzzy head and antennae looking like those deely boppers you used to get at the fairs?

Rawwwrrrrr! Little J likes me to make the Snap Dragons roar at him.

Oh yeah, and we got berries. We came home from camping to find tons of strawberries. They prefer us to be gone I guess?

It's only fair that the berry pickers get to eat them with angel food cake and whipped cream.

Garden Update

Here's one of the cantaloupes we got out of our garden! We actually got several this summer, the rest will be ready to pick in a couple weeks.

The banana trees are finally big enough to block a little of the sun that hits me in the face way too early in the morning while I'm still in bed.

I got to eat the first ear of corn and it was truly the best corn on the cob I've ever had. No, I didn't share. It was too good. There's plenty more to pick soon.

The girls and I picked strawberries today. We looked up and saw Little J's barefooted self pushing back plant branches with one hand, cherry tomatoes in the other and making his way over to us for some berries. He'd let himself out of his stroller which was parked near by.

The cutting garden and vegetable garden behind it. We're still getting a LOT of cucumbers, potatoes, tomatoes, bok choy, broccoli, cauliflower, corn, peppers, and herbs.