Early Summer 2021 in My Garden

“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” ― Audrey Hepburn

Spring in My Garden

"I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it." — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

I haven’t miss the longest day of the year. In fact. I haven’t missed a single white flower that has blossomed in my garden this spring — the bright side of being home during the pandemic. (Left to right, top to bottom: hepatica, white bleeding hearts, rose, vinca, foxglove, lily of the valley, sweet woodruff, daisy, anemone/wind flower, Tina crabapple blossoms, trillium, Chardonnay pearls, more trillium, more vinca, knock-out rose)

June • Color of the Month

“White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

June 2019 in Pictures

"Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.” - Al Bernstein

Summer 2019 Bucket List

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” - John Lubbock

The first day of “summer vacation” seems to be the perfect time to make a summer bucket list…even if it is only 58ºF. My biggest goal is to stay away from school for a few weeks, and here’s what I hope to do:

Carried over from my Spring Bucket List:

• Restore Eric’s Grandpa’s glider and swing on it with my morning coffee (Too many projects and strange weather this summer. We’ll get to it next year!)

• Sip rosé on the deck (as soon as it gets warm enough) (✓)

• Enjoy the first bonfire of the season (✓)

• Organize closets, cabinets, and drawers (✓)

New for summer:

• Read a lot (✓)

• Tend my garden (✓)

• Take long walks with Piper (✓)

• Spruce up our deck (✓)

• Dine al fresco (✓)

• Eat local strawberries in June, Door County cherries in July, and sweet corn on the cob in August (✓)

• See a movie (Yesterday) and go to a concert (Jimmy Buffet) (✓ In fact, we saw 5 movies, went to 2 concerts and a musical!)

• Visit the Nares exhibit and the new Paris posters at the Milwaukee Art Museum (✓)

• Get out on the water (How is it possible that I wasn’t on the water at all this summer?)

• Watch fireworks (and comfort Piper) (✓)

• Take a road trip (✓)

• Take lots of photographs (✓)

• Redecorate Piper’s room (aka our bedroom) (✓)

• See the Perseid meter showers in August (How did this fall off my radar? I guess because we were in Chicago that weekend. Well, next year…)

Results - reviewed on September 22, 2019: 11/14 Not bad!

Cherry Blossoms

“Suddenly she was seeing the buds on the cherry trees around her; she could feel the energy packed within them, a bouquet of fireworks whose fuse had already been lit. She could smell them, too, a subtle essence, the sweetness deepened by the scent of the slowly warming earth below them.”

― Erica Bauermeister, The Lost Art of Mixing

Door County Cherry Blossoms - Egg Harbor