Vegetables and Rainbows

The garden is really beginning to pop! We came back after a couple days away, and tomatoes are turning red, corn is beginning to tassel, and squash and cucumbers are flowering. We have a four-inch zucchini, lots of bush beans, and many small runner beans.


Even the cabbage, much-loved by the slugs, is finally beginning to look like an actual cabbage!


The comfrey has really taken off too. We are planning to plant it underneath and among fruit trees and shrubs. It will keep weeds down and bring nutrients up. We will cut it down several times a season, since the leaves provide a nutritious green manure. Our comfrey plants had a slow start in their nursery but soon exploded.


We also have many visitors to our garden. Last week we arrived and saw six turkeys walking through the orchard! Hopefully they will stick around until they're in season. In the meantime, we have collected lots of feathers.


And last week when Mick was moving mulch around, I discovered a very large toad that had traveled by Kubota from the wood pile to a garden plot. We built him a house.


Walking through the woods, I thought I spotted some litter. But it turned out to be Indian pipes.


The hill is a beautiful place to watch the weather. We were able to watch the clouds rolling in last week.


And then the rains came.


As we were driving back to the trailer I spotted a double rainbow, and we chased it up Ridge Road (which runs to the south of McGraw parallel to 41). From here, the rainbow ends just about at our flagpole.


There were some lovely views of our neighborhood too.



We are thankful for so much beauty and life!