Illuminight

We made paper lanterns last night, and so did lots of other people. It was a free city sponsored event.

 Waiting for our walk to start.

All of us walking our creations by the river. This here town grows on me more and more. 

There was that one time...

And then there was that time I didn't put anything on the blog for several months, but we have been doing fun stuff. And occasionally I take pictures. 

There was the time we went on farm tours and Rhona got to ride on the fattest donkey I've ever seen.

There was the time two of my favorite people mowed the lawn together.

 And there was that time at the zoo.

 And there has been some time knitting.

There was the time we got a Christmas tree and this is, possibly, the only picture I have of it.

There was that one time with the smoothie. Who am I trying to kid ?- every time with a smoothie...

 Then there was the day I asked my child if she wanted to pick out my outfit. Yup, wore that all day!

And there have been a lot of days with Max.

So there it is in a nutshell. Some pictures of some things over the past few months. 

Pears

We've had pears on our pear tree. They are yummy. 

Garden tour..

I mostly puttered in the garden today, so thought I'd take y'all on a garden tour. It is overlong, but I got excited so bear with me. 

I'm really enjoying my bolted, overgrown radishes, and the bees go crazy for them too. So despite their floppiness they stay.

I don't know what these flowers are, do you? My neighbors gave them to me last year.

The herb steps. 

A couple of the pear branches are doing really well, others are totally bare. These are the Rescue pear and the Highland pear.

Ladybug

Ladybugs are beneficial garden bugs.

I've forgotten the vast majority of my childhood, so I always find it astounding what a good memory Rhona has. She got her ladybug costume out of the basement and said, "I wear this sometimes and get candy." Those little synapses haven't been written over yet, I guess.