The rabbits seem to have left me one zinnia, close to blooming.

In the foreground are poppies, and further back is a planting of “Orange” (that’s all the label said when I bought them). I don’t usually plant annuals, but those “Orange” did really well, spreading out to fill the planter.

The days are coming when I will long for all this green.

Sky & lake & Xopher

“Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.” Marcus Aurelius

The “Brown Swiss” can be almost blue-looking.

We visited Newport VT and Lake Memphremagog, biking from the city up to the Canadian border along the east side of the lake. I’m so used to Lake Champlain, it’s weird to bike north along a different big lake, and see totally different mountains on the other side, and return to a totally different Vermont city. Vermont is so much more than the places we usually go! Then we went to Kingdom Brewing where they had a band.

Starting to bloom right outside the window.

“Sure we really like it! Bikin’ the causeway, bikin’ the causeway”

3-week-old calf at the petting zoo stop on the Stowe Rec Path.

These are called ‘donut peaches’ and are super good.