This is one of my favorite sites on our property. I'm really loving the Purslane this year - it's always beautiful and colorful and seems virtually indestructible. Gotta love that. The front pot broke (I was rolling it across the driveway and one side just split off). I really love the pots and didn't want to just toss it, so I put a rock under the pot that didn't break and then leaned the pot that was broken up against the rock. Funny enough, the big rock is holding the broken pot together. And I love that the Purslane has found its way down into the crack in the pot and bloomed.
The sunflower (we have one lone plant that decided to grow and bloom next to the driveway) is approaching the end of it's life cycle I think - or else it's hunkered down against the heat...
Tim gave me a crape myrtle bush earlier this year. We couldn't remember what it was until it bloomed recently.
It's been one week since Abner was put down. We miss him. Even with severe cataracts, almost complete loss of hearing, a skin disorder and a bunch of other things, he was a very loving dog. He'd claimed Tim as his human and was unconditionally devoted to him. I can't tell if the other animals know he's gone, or what their relationship is to Abner not being here, but it seems like their pecking order changed a bit (although Abner was pretty near the bottom of the pecking order despite his age) and things have been much calmer around here.
I caught site of a butterfly in the garden the other day. He stayed long enough for me to catch several shots. He had part of one of his wings missing, although you mostly can't see that.
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