our maine home – zone 5b
This loaded peach tree is in the sideyard of what might be an abandoned house on South Bay Road. I bet people in that neighborhood have the harvest well in hand. But I was envious and wanted some.
I saw this while riding my ebike, longest ride yet at 15.5 miles.
I’ve been walking most mornings early, like 6 am. I shifted the direction of my loop so I could face into the sun rising in the east. The fog creates some lovely effects.
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.
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.
This corner has been a problem area. Sam dug out the narrow strip between the fence and the trellis, which was overgrown with weeds. Green beans are planted there and seem to be doing well. Inside the trellis will be shady soon as the beans on the right and the cucumbers on the left start to climb and get big. It’s been a challenge to figure out what to plant under there that will take early sun and later shade. Right now I have lettuce, carrots, fennel, celery leaf, and cilantro (just germinating). And some kale left over from last year. This area seems to take more than its share of my time in weeding and watering but it’s looking better this year than it has in the past.
It never seems easy, but we have finally settled on some tile for the camp bathroom.
The pebbles that were our first choice for the shower floor have been discontinued. So we ended up with the simple dark gray squares.
The bathroom floor will be the long planks with the gray mottling.
The shower walls and ceiling will be the mottled looking white tile that’s standing up.
On to the next step!
Sam has been busy preparing the subfloor prior to laying the flooring soon. Sanding the edges and pairing on two coats of vapor barrier. This necessitated moving the stack of flooring which was good fun.
I was so surprised to see this rhodora at our camp property on Donnell’s Pond. As soon as I read about them, I wanted to see one and I always thought I’d have to do some major exploration far afield to come across the fabulous blooms. I was wandering around outside looking vaguely at the boggy area near the lakeshore, when I spotted a flash of pinkish magenta. Upon closer investigation, I realized it was a rhodora! Fantastic sight.
And here’s a view of camp from across the road, peeking shyly out from the forest.
