The cows were turned out on 11th June. Time to take the camera off the road as I would have nothing but cows triggering the lens.

Various bunches of baby ducks on the pond. The beaver weren’t living in the house but they were still maintaining the dam.

The weather stayed mostly miserable, which gave some interesting sunrises at times. but the early-planted garden had grown very poorly and I had to reseed most of it.

Despite this, the flowers along the road began to bloom. Silky phacelia.

Penstemon procerus

Jacob’s ladder

Wild roses

A day when the clouds broke apart.

Richardson’s penstemon

And the brown-eyed Susan I collected from seed further east, and managed to establish on my rock garden.

Strawberry moon

And who should pop into my life but good old Alyssa who has helped many times. Only for a couple of days but she laid cardboard next to the seedlings. I was still having difficulty with bending jobs. Cardboard both retains moisture and keeps the weeds down.

She came during a brief spell of good weather so I was able to take her up Perkins Peak. (Next post.)