In which the reader may virtually visit the garden

I've finally gotten some pictures up on the web from this spring in the period
garden.  I plan to continue adding to the year two page blog-style as the garden
develops this summer.

http://goldenlyon.org/pgarden.html

In case you've been living under a rock and so haven't heard my cries for relief, the garden is producing an overwhelming amount of some
herbs. Please let me know if you need anything.

In which the roses arrive in time for June

Since I'm leaving for Kansas this morning, I arose early (not early enough) and began packing. A trip out to the car made me pause and grab the camera. This morning was the first morning when the roses were in bloom, and I had to get pictures.

There are several bushes in the front of the house. I am resistant to planting more, since water is such an issue in Denver. I'll keep the plants going that were here when we arrived. But I'd sure love a purple or a yellow; I've always loved Peace, too.

I'm especially fond of the red and cream bi-color above; another more open blossom appears below. This particular bush sports a completely red cane. It's pretty striking.




The coral and the apricot roses have more of an old-fashioned blossom shape, one that I'm not as fond of. But the delicacy of the blooms in the morning was inspiring nevertheless.

I'm fond of capturing a friend or two in the flower pictures. The red rose below has a tiny brown grasshopper or cricket in the petals.



This pink one is truly a gem. I don't care much for pink, but this rose is near perfection in color and shape.

Beautiful June days make it harder to leave Denver.....

In which Evan (almost) goes to school

Evan told me yesterday morning that he was "so excited" to go to his new school. I told him that the day was tomorrow (today) ; he said, "I know that."

It's new because it's at the school where he will go to kindergarten in the fall, but he's in the summer not-quite-school program. He'll get the ususal daycare things, with enrichment in the form of technology and reading classes and field trips. There is curruculum, but not as much as the regular school session.

Facing a new routine of lunches, field trips and swimming outings, we needed supplies - lunch foods and snack foods, a insulated lunch bag, Blue Ice. Last night found us laden with single-serve milk, yogurt, small bottles of water, Jell-O, carrot sticks, pudding, Scooby snacks, and goldfish. I organized the collection into piles - sandwich, fruit/vegetable, yogurt, crackers, and desert. He got to choose one from each pile. He choose a grape jelly and peanut butter sandwich, applesauce, yogurt, Scooby snacks and pudding. I included two drink aseptics, white milk and chocolate Silk. And a cereal bar for morning snack.

It looked like a lot of pre-packaged, marginally-healthy stuff.

We are as usual somewhat unprepared. Evan's grandma has ordered him lunch things - a Spiderman lunch box and all the accoutrement to fill it. It's just not here yet. We figure that when we have things to put stuff in, that much of the pre-packaged stuff might go away. Of course, that would mean that would depend upon Evan remembering to replace the containers in the lunch box, to bring it home, and then getting it all washed and re-packed for tomorrow. Maybe pre-packaged, marginally-healthy stuff isn't such a bad idea.