I feel like old Farmer McGregor every morning, confronted by mobs of rabbits consuming the garden.  Actually, they’re adorable–and prolific!  I’m glad I can oblige.  This one looked to be a mother and her offspring, munching away companionably on my flower/pumpkin border.  They just sort of stroll away, then come back for more!  Sorry about the quality.

Speaking of which (pumpkins), here is a young’un forming, plus the obligatory poppy.

These speak for themselves.

This is the scene that greeted me this morning!  Poppies gone wild!  I can’t get enough.  It almost like a drug.  No, they’re not that sort of poppies, but they may as well be.  Did I mention I love poppies?

While my older granddaughter took my son out for F-day sushi yesterday evening, we watched the kids again.  We ate blackberries from the masses of berry bushes in the woods, and found beautiful daylilies and other flowers blooming.  Here are some:

…and some wildlife sighted while exploring:

Back at home today, more flowers, and especially squash, are going crazy.  Guess what we mostly eat around here?  Today’s menu was Italian.

Meanwhile, E was hard at work replacing the old dilapidated front porch railings, and reframing the whole thing from scratch with sturdy lumber.  Eventually it will be more enclosed.  Here it is so far:

Here are random scenes from yesterday evening up on the foothill.  If you squint, you can just make out the lizard (skink I believe) out on the deck.

Here are some flowers at home today.

We’ve been able to get over to my son’s more frequently, and hopefully being helpful.  Sometimes I wonder!  But we try.  Happily, he’s getting out more, making new friends, and looking happier.

Who needs fireworks when you have brilliant flower works!  Also much quieter, and smells better.

Here are some Zucchini Throw Pillows, for those in the know.  If you have to ask, you’re not.  {For home-grown mattresses, see the marshes of Sqornshellous Zeta.  There may be tariffs.}    Erev cheers.

Last night we watched the kids while my son and adult granddaughter got a much-needed enjoyable evening out.  “Watch” being a loose term for just being there while the kids watched movies.  Eventually they all made it to bed.  I did spend some fun one-on-one with the boys.

I try to make the most of my narrowing window of time with them, because these will be the good memories they and we will retain when they’re older and distant.  I’m very fortunate to have that, and never take it for granted.

Here is the latest, greatest batch of challah by E., and a spectacular new poppy blooming, surrounded by flower friends.

Your daily required dosage of flowers and squash:

Here’s what’s blooming: