garden pests

 The Lakeview Center for Active Aging has some plants which are giving their last to some pests or another.

 Squash plants (either crookneck or zucchini) are finishing their production cycle, and some bugs are enjoying the leaves.

The cucumber plants have been decimated by some hungry thing or another.  Nashturtiums that volunteer seeded are blooming though.

We will be looking for something else to plant in this area soon!

 Echinacea is looking pretty good!

Queen Ann's Lace and Lavender are blooming by Lake Tomahawk, where the water is still muddy from yesterday's rain...but the beautiful clouds float in a sunny blue sky today!

Today's quote:
It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again, invisibly, inside us. We are the bees of the invisible. We wildly collect the honey of the visible, to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Vegetable garden at the lake

 I helped Master Gardener David Bush plant some seeds of various vegetables in the raised bed at the Lakeview Center for Active Aging. 

 I started at one end, and he started at the other.

 Then he pointed out the volunteer pitcher plant (right in the middle front of this picture.)  It's a pitcher picture.

 And now, 8 days later, just look what's up already!

Flora and fauna and Espanol

The other day there wasn't a single goose around.  Maybe they've gone south finally.

Goldenrod in full bloom, which apparently is not the one that triggers allergies.  The Ragweed does that, according to a good friend.

I don't have to go far to enjoy these mums, nor that rosemary below, right outside the Lakeview Center for Active Aging, at Lake Tomahawk. I like the new name, though it's a bit long.  I have really enjoyed taking my Spanish conversation class there weekly, as well as meeting many new friends at the lunch program sponsored by the Council on Aging.

Ola! From some of the regulars at the Seniors Spanish Conversation table - free of course! (Lunch costs $1.50 with reservations)