Some recent summer pictures

[layla]

Orion's dad has been up here for the last week or so to help work on the garage.


The outer wall in the late-evening sun (and by late evening I mean, oh, 11 p.m. or so)


Look out! Hail! You can't really see it in this picture, but it was falling so hard and fast that you could barely see across the yard -- wet hail mixed with rain.


Today the hard-working construction crew put up the rafters.

I actually worked in my garden a little bit today. It's not much this year ... some strawberry plants (which the birds have been eating the strawberries from), some lettuces, and I planted a few rows of carrots and spinach today, which should at least get big enough to eat before the September frosts come.

I forget if I posted any pictures of the garden construction process ... here's an older one...


I basically used the natural "riffles" in the dredged gravel piles and built little rock walls across the ends of them to hold the dirt in.


Here's a picture of the garden taken today, after I'd done my planting. It's coming along. I figure I'll add a little to it each year, as I have time.

Comments

[arcana-j.livejournal.com]

"...and by late evening I mean, oh, 11 p.m. or so."

Now see, were that California I'd have said it was about 7pm.

The place is shaping up nicely though, I must say. How's your psyche now that you've been back home for awhile, back in the wild and wooly north where you belong?

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

My psyche is doing very, very well. I'm so obnoxiously happy that I probably drive everyone around me nuts. Seriously. ^_^ And my creativity is in overdrive, which is definitely good, but also bad because I don't have enough hours in the day to work on all my projects!

[divalea.livejournal.com]

But you have enough daylight, eh?

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

But I do still need to sleep ... when possible. (The blasted daylight tends to interfere with that.)

[divalea.livejournal.com]

Lisa beat me to it! I was gonna ask how being "home" is.

And holy shit 11PM sun. A sun-loving nocturnal's dream, that is.

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

See answer to Lisa. ^_~ And yes ... the summer evenings are one of the things I love most about being here, once I got used to it again. That lovely part of the evening where the sun is all slanting and golden and low ... it lasts FOREVER, it seems like.

[dewgeist.livejournal.com]

Looking good. (The scenery, garage, garden, all of it...) Well, we are on the way. That coffee date should be in three weeks -K'?

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

Yup, you're on! (Though we'll be out of town 'till the end of July.) Have a good trip...