hello again

Hello, friends both near and far!

I am not sure how I have managed to be

absent since mid-April. The garden, as you

can see, has kept growing. We have eaten 

two salads out of it and have harvested 

a good amount of cilantro and some peppers.

The summer is coming fast, and I hope

to dive back into painting. I usually spend 

the summer in a sleepy stupor, but I have been

wide awake since I started taking fish oil three

weeks ago. I feel hopeful about the possibilities.

I hope May finds you well and delighted.

the flower boat

 Last week we took the old sandbox boat (the "Sandboat")

that the kids have grown out of and turned it into a flower boat.

 We moved it into the new garden, filled it with soil, and planted 

a bunch of flowers in it. As well as some canteloupe that

Elliott really wanted to try out. Maybe one of these days I'll

go after the boat with a paintbrush to spruce it up a bit. 

Until then, we'll let the flowers do that work for us!

 The original cover was too opaque, so I took the netting that was

previously used to cover the sand, added strips of burlap around 

the edges, and created a new sunshade. The main purpose of this

is actually to keep the rhus lancea seeds from the overhanging tree

out. It's not the most sophisticated sewing job, but it does the trick!!

 Here are a couple of closeups of the flowers we planted in there.