An Evening in the Garden

Don't have a lot of time to spare today, but wanted to share some photos I took yesterday evening.

Piles of Smiles

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If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

~Andy Rooney

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There Goes the Neighborhood!

I don't know what your garden set-up is, but this house has no backyard to speak of.  I think it's pretty standard for Florida, especially when a pool is involved.  But, seriously, what's a gardener to do?  Here on this plot, I have about 10 feet of backyard behind the pool.  Oh, how I long to pick up this monstrosity of a house and move it forward 20 feet!

An Insect's View

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"Nature will bear the closest inspection.
She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf,
and take an insect view of its plain."

~ Henry David Thoreau

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Daily walks with the daylilies

I truly love this time of year in my garden.  Not really sure whether I should call it spring or summer, though.  While the heat is as torrid as summer and intensified by weeks of drought, there is so much new life springing forth, that I do still want to call it spring.  This year in particular, I am watching my garden spring back after a long, brutal winter that had decimated my tropical plants.  And they are recovering!  Very little seems to be lost.