I took this after last Friday’s storm storm. I finally started feeling like myself again nearly two weeks after I caught a cold, and I was beginning to think I was never going to get over it. But I did, just as I always do. And there is no significance or symbolism to the dead fish in my new header. I saw it lying on the sand and I snapped a photo. I like the contrasting textures.

I received this media kit this week from Renee’s Garden. It included a sample packet of the featured annual: “Climbing Phoenix” heirloom nasturtiums. I don’t think I have ever seen these before, and they look interesting. I will plant them in a large container where I grew Thunbergia so successfully last year.

After several summers of bumper crops, last year was not a good one in my vegetable garden. The cottontail rabbits are completely out of control, and they pounced on my snap peas, eating the shoots down to the ground three times before the poor plants finally gave up and died.

Then these voracious critters took up residence. The blonde one was the first of several, and I think at least two of them decided to spend the winter here, because there are a couple of large burrows in the flower beds.

Between the rabbits and the wood chucks, the vegetable garden was under siege all summer, and I didn’t harvest much.

The perennial border looked pretty darned nice, though. Maybe I should just focus on flowers this year. It’s hard to get psyched for planting vegetables when there’s a good chance you’ll never get to eat them.