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Sunday, August 24, 2008

A Few More Visions From Summer


Hot tonight! Whoowee! Martin and I sweat as we watched Detective Goring on Instantwatch Netflix. But tomorrow promises to be cooler.

We have more lovely red raspberries coming in (had a few with yogurt tonight)!

I'd thought I'd catch up a little on some summer pictures. . .

Here's our dear "Aunt" Nancy with B.


Ubiquitous zinnias. . .


One of our garden paths, in progress (ran out of mulch!)


Two sweet girls. . .


The two big girls on their camping trip with Daddy while B and I were in Seattle. . .Apparently, the lake was rather chilly.



Here's the "walled tent" that Merry made into home sweet home for a couple nights. . .Martin tells me Elspeth seemed to have thought that they had moved there for good (not worried, I suppose, that Mommy and B were not around, as long as she could spend 24/7 mucking about outside).


Our glorious front path, flooded with Russian Sage, Purple Hyssop, Sages, and Queen Anne's Lace.


Summer badminton games down our hill--and a picnic--for Labor Day weekend.


Merry and Co. finishing off popsicles on the porch swing. . .


Elspeth picking raspberries in the mellow evening. . .


Elspeth, headed up the front steps (see the new garden I put in on the right, for which I dug up more, more, MORE grass!)


Beatrix and Grandmama conversing in a most serious manner on the front porch (the butterfly bushes behind attract the most incredible butterflies!) Later that night Martin and Mom and the girls finished supper on the porch while they watched a tremendous thunderstorm.

And finally, a bouquet I couldn't help but share--indicative of the wild loveliness of this past summer.