The first day with evening shift works great, the second day really well, the third day is quite tiresome and the fourth is just nasty 🙂 🙂 🙂 So I’m so glad I mowed the lawn yesterday morning and the shopping today otherwise I’m pretty sure the mowing wouldn’t have been done 🙂 🙂 🙂
Today is Midsummer eve and most likely the biggest holiday here, I was planning on writing about it today but I’m so tried that it will have to wait until tomorrow. We have a quite wonderful weather here today, mostly sunny all day, 22C (71,6F) with a wind that actually reach my garden after the heavy pruning of the Hungarian lilac a few weeks ago. It was much needed and I really need to do more but that will be a job for later.
I drove to the grocery store in the village where I used to work at nine am and they played summer music (which must mean music that has been played a lot previous summers, not necessarily about summer though 🙂 I had the windows open and all smells in the world came in to my car. I only drove on small roads so the speed was slow and I enjoyed every second of it 🙂 I took slightly different roads back home just to be able to enjoy everything from the forest to big fields with wheat and corn flowers, no poopies though but I’m pretty sure they’ll be there in a day or two.
Every year since I moved to this region I’ve seen a couple driving around in what I think is a Morgan Plus 8 car. they have always been dressed in a British upper class style and she has worn a hat with a thin scarf holding the hat down (since it is a convertible) So I’ve only seen this couple those time we both have been driving around at the same time but also see them, like me, getting older. I met them early in May the last time and they looked just as happy as always. Today I was happy to see the car again but this time only the man was sitting in it and he looked well not sad but not happy either. I do hope the woman is healthy and living (they must be in their 80’s by now) because the car looked empty without her.
The village is quiet today, only the wind and the birds can be heard, not even the cats up at the farm fights. I noticed that the monsterkitten followed us in the to the wood shed when I was about to drive to the store, she refused to go out with me so she had to stay there until I came home. I left the door to the wood shed stay open when I returned home and let the dogs out from the dog house and naturally though the stupid cat (one of all her names 🙂 🙂 🙂 would run out but now this afternoon I started to wonder why she wasn’t with us pestering me for food. Turns out that she had stayed in the wood shed when I closed the door 🙂 🙂 Well at least she was safe all the time 🙂 🙂
It is time for some ice cream and a soda called Trocadero, a Swedish brand with a taste somewhat close to tutti-frutti. The sugar free is so much better tasting since it isn’t that sweet so it works really well with very sweet ice cream 🙂
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
wonderful photos today. your garden looks glorious! poignant story about the couple in the morgan. i hope they are both well. 🕊
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Hi mandolin mama!
I must admit that I do like how the garden look now 🙂 still lots have been damaged by different fungi who loves dry weather but still have lots of morning dew and that is something we’ve had this year, plus aphids. I don’t think I’ve ever seen this many of them but nothing who will eat them like Ladybugs.
I do hope they both are fine and that the lady just didn’t have time to go out this time. It’s odd but I have no idea who they are and only see them a few times every summer but it has become some kind of story I’ve been following and now one of the main characters isn’t there 🙂
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So many flowers, so many colors, your photos today remind me of the opening screens of the movie “My Fair Lady.”
I wonder about the tall white flowers (weeds? wildflowers?) in the second photos. I think maybe they are what I would call Queen Anne’s Lace. It was very common when I lived up north in Massachusetts, but I don’t see too much of it in Virginia. Maybe it likes a cooler climate.
I thought Alma was doing something with chickens in that photo of her lying down with the white thing with the yellow head behind her. Then in the next photo I realized it was Malkolm’s back leg and she was on top of him!
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Hi catsworking!
No it’s not Queen Anne’s Lace but a relative, we call it Hundkäx (dog biscuits) over here and this one is edible and is said to taste somewhat like parsnips.
🙂 🙂 🙂 She always attack his legs so he lose his balance 🙂 🙂
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