Garden party...

After last nights drama, a quiet walk in the garden this morning was nice. It was a drizzly dawn, cooler and still, except for the high, peeping sound of turkey poults calling their parents from the edge of the woods.

A customer left the sweet painted rock as a surprise. It goes nicely with the crimson petunias.

The clematis I planted two years ago is blooming up a storm.

A pumpkin in the making.

The Passion Flower vine I planted is very happy on the trellis. It is covered in buds.

This variegated geranium is a pretty thing.

The day lilies are blooming.

Yarrow is, too.

The bluebird chicks must have hatched in the last 24 hours, because both parents are suddenly in and out, carrying fat bugs. Here papa bluebird carries a caterpillar for his young.

Summer, and the gardens are bursting with color and life.