These are my favorite two months of the year. The woodlands are bursting with blooms, both verdant and fragrant. The smell of wild honeysuckle in the evenings is particularly comforting to me. I spend much of my time in the gardens: surveying; weeding; dead-heading.
This year the rose garden put on quite a show in both gorgeous blooms and redolence. We had a prolonged, cool and wet spring so many of the blooms waited for warmer and sunnier weather to appear.
We've also had a variety of visitors this year: a snapping turtle, a box turtle, fox, fat raccoons, red shouldered and Coopers hawks, pileated woodpeckers, a plethora of cardinals, blue jays, blue birds, flickers, and sap suckers, and, of course, hummingbirds!!
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