Update #5

Hello! Here is the photo I picked for us, with just a little enhancing in Photoshop. I didn't have to do anything drastic. I thought you might like to have it, but if you already have your own picked out, c'est la vie.


And here is our family picture.


I think you can save them by clicking on them and then clicking File...Save.

Since this is a garden blog I think I can post about your garden as well! We really enjoyed being able to see it.


I love the colors in these flowers.

Now for our garden. A lot happened while we were gone. Some of the hostas are blooming.

We've got about 5 tomatoes formed, including this guy:

Something is eating the beet leaves. :(

The wildflowers are lovely! Lots of blues, pinks and purples. Since I took this photo a couple of days ago, there are twice as many flowers now.

Some pretty lilies in the front yard.

The hypericum is flowering nicely.

The eggplant produced one fruit, which got eaten by some animal, but there is another fruit on it now and Jason is going to sprinkle the plants generously with chili powder.

The black raspberry is producing more than ever before! Here's what we picked the day after we got back.

Two pints or so. And every day since then we've picked about a cup. Jason made a couple of tarts for dessert the other night, but we've frozen the rest so we can make a lot of jam.

We've picked 2 zucchini and a yellow squash, and 7-8 more will be ready in a few days.

Where we cut down the tree between us and the neighbor, a lot of black-eyed susans appeared - the sunlight helped them really take off. It's nice to have that tree gone.

That's all for now! Hope you are having a nice week.