Growth and Decay

Here are some lovely photos from August 15:




Hard to believe this is just 5 weeks ago. The garden is a mess now. The tomatoes have something that is making all the leaves turn brown and limp. It looks like they were hit with frost, but it hasn't been at all cold. I need to keep up better. But it was a lovely summer, cool and green, little rain in July, but plenty after that. Too cool for tomatoes. Not many this year, even though we planted a lot.

Tomatoes on the driveway

Here are the tomatoes which line our driveway. There used to be small shrubs all the way along here, which we took out to make room. This is looking east from the driveway.Click here for an earlier view, looking west, about 6 weeks ago.

Kid's eye view

Billy had the camera on Sunday while we were weeding, and took these pictures of plants in the tiered garden off the deck. I like his perspective. Tomato plant: Red Cabbage:

Nasturiums:

Lovely Lilies

For scale! Lilies and one 44 inch tall 4-year-oldbunches of beauty

So many blossoms

Up close and pink

Here is one leftover vestige of the previous owners of our house. He was a landscape architect, so did a lot of nice work, but most of it is in prime veggie growing areas, so we took a lot of it out to make more room for food plants. This bunch we left. They are so beautful and getting more abundant each year. We'll be splitting and planting these all over the yard and giving them to neighbors this fall. They have tomato plants on either side of them, up and down the driveway (see more recent posts).