🌻 A Fleeting Summer 🌻

🌻 Can you believe it's the last week of August?  If ever there was a season that I wish would last longer it's Summer.  I love driving with the windows down.  I love sitting in the warmth on the deck watching the birds visit our feeder and bathe and drink in the creek of our pond.  I love the fresh fruits and vegetables from the local roadside farm stand.  I love all the sunshine.  

Yesterday we met our son and his family for lunch to try out their favorite Mexican restaurant near their house.  Two Brothers.  It was good!  On our way home we had the windows down and enjoying the drive and Dayle came up with the idea of going to our local farm stand to buy some fresh corn on the cob for dinner.  :-)  She had some sunflowers in vases but they weren't for sale, so we drove to the flower stand and purchased a dozen flowers for our table.  :-)

I recently saw this tablecloth online and fell in love with it, it reminds me of the 50s when I was a small child.  So.. I ordered it!  It goes very well in our yellow dining room with white wood trim.

Last night we had corn on the cob for dinner!  Why not?  

Slathered with melted butter and a shake of salt.. perfecto!

Dayle just ran up to the farm stand to get the last strawberries of the season, and some green beans, too.  Tonight's dinner?

The weekend weather was divine, we were enjoying the deck when I looked up I marveled at the interesting cloud formations.  Anyone know what these are called?  Altocumulus?

Each time I walk to and fro on the deck I admire my darling pots of red and green shamrocks in flower.  The red one has pink flowers, so cute!  They will come back in for the winter.

All the plants in the garden around our pond are fully lush and bushy.  

We have 6 bird feeders that Dayle keeps filled with different things, cracked sunflowers, black niger seed and wild bird mixed seeds.  Can you see all the birds dining on them?  We seem to have a ton of immature goldfinches that are all brown visiting us.

Our garden provides them food, water and trees.  What more could a bird ask for?  Oh.. and no cats.  LOL!

The Corkscrew Willow I've grown from my Dad's funeral floral arrangement has gotten rather huge and arches over the pond.

Our fish bring great joy to us.. watching them glide back and forth is a soothing pastime.

We only have 4 right now, 3 koi and a battle-scarred old pond goldfish.  She was bright orange when we got her but over the years turned white.. they say it's when they are deprived of light but ours is not kept in the dark so there goes THAT theory!

This big guy is so gorgeous.

See the big flat rock on the left?  We made a place for the fish to hide if predators try to get them and it's worked pretty well.  Raccoons have caught and eaten several over the years and when the potted papyrus are knocked over we know something has tried to catch our fish.  :-(

On Friday we attended the spreading of my friend Sally's ashes at Vista House, they gave each of us a rose and some babies breath.

Sally would have loved these.

Some of her ashes are in this china jar, I'm holding on to them for Dallas who will pick them up in a few days when she moves her things to her new apartment in Houston, Texas.

And lastly, our grandson Hayden started middle school today!!

OK... I must dash to pack my swim bag and head to the pool. I hope you have something wonderful to do today.  Do share.
((hugs)), Teresa :-)