Snails ahead

Strawberries Escargot and                                                         

Peonies for battered thoughts.

Taste

The crow had the first ripening berry from the patch. Yesterday I noticed 2 reddening berries and , to keep them from the slugs, put each on a pebble. Well, a crow took that as an offering. We picked the second, just in case.             

Smelly Alley

The first day of Summer  and all that goes with it. Sight, Sound, Smell, Taste and Touch. A zombie just come alive. I rounded the corner of the house and got hit by a mixture of 2 scents and the strength of it was arresting. They came from the Korean lilac and the Candy Tuft.                                                                               

June 10; a visit.

There, 15 feet from me, Nibbling as Performance. It strolls up, neck erect like Cleopatra. Scans the audience, and engages eye to eye. Solo to solo, away from our herds and under the blue sky, the deer and I are speechless. Lowers its head and nips the tip of a thick stalk. I think I heard the crunch. Crosses the front and exits stage left.

Taking my head out.

The news in the last week of May was horrible and local. Local in that the events took place in Canada. CBC played an audio clip of a man under the influence of the drug known as Bath salts. The growling makes me think that this is what devolution may be like. A doctor in New Glasgow, 60 km from here, had dealt with 17 cases and is worried. The other piece of horror took place in Montreal. Not a simple murder, but one with the perpetrator seeking notoriety by sending body parts of the victim to schools and political headquarters. I fled to Henning Mankell's fiction in which his detective, Kurt Wallander, encounters violent crimes. I buried my head into the Swedish scenes.  

Today we went to pick up the parts for fixing the PTO on the tractor and I helped myself by getting bedding plants: tomato, broccoli, savoy cabbage, and pepper. Seeds include peas, radish, beets and carrots. The last come in tapes for easing planting. We are into luxury.

                                                                 

Call me to you

I am inordinately fond of this small perennial;Johnny Jump Up with its pansy face flowers. Again this morning, I felt a delight when it "sighted"me and I thought I like to know more about this low growing plant. The Latin name is not as revealing as its' many popular names,which show that the plant elicits the same response from other people. It is known as Johnny Jump Up, Heartease, Love-in-idleness and Call me to you. That makes my day.