Still gray and chilly. a good day to do some catching up on this blog.
I happened to be up early one day last week and enjoyed a rare sunrise. (No, the sunrise isn’t rare, only my being there to see it.)
Sunrise over Lake Vermilion
And I’ve already mentioned how badly Jan missed her garden during the years we were in New York, she had almost no opportunity to get some dirt under her fingernails. Well, here on Pine Island there’s plenty of dirt, and Jan has been taking advantage of it. We took a walk through the woods last week to a former neighbor’s property, now more or less abandoned. There are some structures on it which make our original rickety cabin look like the Hilton.
Jan's a happy camper with a clod of dirt.
Jan collects some irises and a clump of Lily of the Valley to plant in our back yard, she’ll come back when the Columbines have set seed to collect them.
On a gray day like today our Ruby Throated Hummingbirds are especially busy at our two feeders, almost all of them females for some reason. One of the two feeders can actually accommodate six hummers at a time, but that never happens. They’re very territorial and aggressive, and it’s rare to see even two of them feeding at the same time, one of them will always drive another one away.
Ruby Throated Hummingbird
These gray, wet days have been blowing in from the east, in marked contrast to the westerly winds which normal dominate our weather. In addition to rotten weather, they bring rotten fishing. Bette Rouleau, our friend on the other side of the island tells us: “Wind from the East, fish bite the least”…not that we would know, having hardly dropped a line in the water so far.
Bread baking & blogging occupy most of today, I take the little boat over to Bill and Lynn Overland’s to say goodbye. They’re leaving tomorrow, they have a wedding to attend on N. Carolina’s Outer Banks (Kitty Hawk), and Bill will be attending his HS reunion on the 13th in “The Cities” (that’s Minneapolis-St. Paul) on their way back here. We already have a dinner date with them at their place on July 14. Elizabeth will be coming up with her friend Mac to stay with us, and Bill and Lynn would love to have a chance to meet her.