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Say hello to my very sad, single agapanthus in the front yard. When I planted a bunch of them in the back, there was one much larger and different than the others, and since I was planting them in a line to create a curved river bed shape, I decided to plant this one elsewhere. Unfortunately, I didn’t think about the deer and the bunnies. They were very happy to see this Lily of the Nile, and ate it down to the nubbins within a week! But the agapanthus perservered and is blooming (albeit not particularly attractive!) in spite of its tough beginnings. I’m glad, because I find them to be beautiful, regal plants and I’ve got my fingers crossed for her!

Finally, I am thrilled to report that my very green, leafy, overflowing morning glory vine is BLOOMING! It’s a beautiful little gem – for which I have been waiting for literally months! It went into the ground in June and gets plenty of morning sun, but we just haven’t had quite enough sunny days. I look for blooms every day and today I was rewarded! Its next-door-neighbor-vine, the Mexican Flame Vine, has been blooming for several weeks now. Next, I’ll be looking for the blue morning glory that lives between these two on the fence to bloom. I planted it from seed, however, so it is far behind these two in growth. Guess I’ll just have to keep talking to it~!

Okay, it rained on our day-before-Labor Day Family Pool Party again – second year in a row. And we have rain forecast for yet another whole week, and hurricanes heading in our general direction, so the clouds may be with us for even longer. It has been the absolute oddest weather year I’ve experienced. Guess we all got so used to the drought and we don’t know what to do what an abundance of rain. Makes you really wonder about the very direct effects of Global Warming on our everyday lives — now — not just in the abstract future.

This is our spider friend, Charlotte. We named her because we are in the middle of reading “Charlotte’s Web” at bedtime these days, and it just seemed appropriate. We watched her take off from her “toddler” spider two weeks ago and move to a spot of her own, leaving her offspring to her previous spot. Today she has a prime corner of the cabana, where breezes are likely to blow yummy morsels her way. Jeff got pictures of her front and back, and she’s just stunning. And, for our family entertainment this afternoon, Dad and I actually killed a fly and put it into her web in the hopes we’d given her some dinner. Unfortunately, it fell out before she ventured toward it. (I know, we’ve taken the concept of back to nature too far!!!!)

And Jeff found a bat resting in our closed umbrella this afternoon. We all came out to watch it and he tried to shoo it away, but it kept coming back, so he tried to get a picture of it before the final and successful shooing. I hope it didn’t go too far, because it is welcome to our mosquitos, but we do have two big dogs and didn’t want to chance their getting ahold of it.

Well, we’re back home from Indiana and we had a great time. I’ll post a few more fun fair photos here since it’s easier on my computer here at home. I couldn’t believe it was hotter in Indiana than Texas on Wednesday, where we hit 100 degrees.

I’m including a few garden photos from my mother-in-law’s garden, which was blooming and lovely while we were there.

So, immediately after posting that I couldn’t post – lo and behold, a photo appeared. Must have been lost in cyber space. I’ve since been able to upload another (though I have been at it for about 4 hours off and on!). So, stuff may or may not appear here! Kind of like my garden!!! Tee hee…