Tangents

A quick update with a few garden related items and a few other items that are not directly garden related.  First, when we visited the garden on Saturday afternoon, we found a painter set up in front of our garden.  She was making a painting of our perennial flower corner, with it's oregano, bee balm, globe thistle, phlox and grasses, with the barn as a backdrop.  We asked if the painter would mind if I took a picture of her painting.  She was fine with it:

Thank you for letting me include your painting and for seeing and appreciating the beauty in our garden.

One of our neighbor gardeners has a new resident inside their fence:

This happens on occasion in the gardens.  Since we are located in a wildlife sanctuary, the groundhogs are protected (as well as being the subjects of a long standing scientific study), and they are pretty much everywhere, including underneath our gardens.  Every so often one of them will dig out an exit hole right in the middle of some poor gardener's plot.  We had one a number of years back just outside our fence.  That is as close as they have come, but of course we could be blessed with our very own groundhog exit hole at any time.

We now have obvious beans coming along.  Soon...

A tangent.  Some of our non-vine morning glories that we planted in flower boxes on our balcony at home.  We also have vines growing on the downstairs porch railings.

This is only garden related in that this has become our new favorite stop on our way home from the garden.  Love Cupcakes  Very wonderful cupcakes and the nicest people, too.  Makes it a bit easier to get over the closing of Stonyfield Cafe, our old favorite "fast-food" stop for garden picnic dinners.