our maine home – zone 5b
I climbed partway up Fiery Mountain on a wet, rugged trail. Looking for black trumpets, which I found in abundance there a few years ago. I found some black trumpets, but also a variety of other specimens. I used to try to identify mushrooms, but I can’t keep up with them. Now I just know a few that I like to eat. And appreciate the rest for their looks and mysterious nature.
Clarke Jr. is here to visit. Making a little modification to the treehouse.
This project took all afternoon. There was an overabundance of broccoli in the garden. It was impossible to keep up with unless we wanted to eat broccoli every day, twice a day. Some of it was flowering, some of it was way past its prime. I decided to harvest all I could find and go through it, removing the bad and preserving the good.
Result: five pounds of broccoli, chopped, blanched and frozen. Probably equally that amount tossed onto the compost. I’m glad that’s done.
Just some photos of all the beauty surrounding me on this sunny summer day.
It’s not that unusual to see a cardinal. But it is unusual to be idly looking out the window at the birdfeeder and watch a cardinal swoop in from the woods and then have it stick around for a photo. Not a great photo, but I wanted to remember this moment which seemed like a gift.
And of course it rained on the day of the fava bean party. The show (harvest) must go on! I cut all the stalks in the morning before the downpours started. There sure is a lot of biomass there.
I walked down to the marina area on Hancock Point and saw some interesting specimens on the side of the road.
Some photos of the newly installed flooring at camp. Bill and Sam are working on the sanding with a rental floor sander. Then Sam will apply several coats of urethane. The camp looks especially nice with all the construction material off the floor.
Lesley took me up the trail to check on the bluebird babies. Sure enough, there they are! We estimated five of them.
