yucky day

It seems like the end of September and not August at all. And I know that we'll never get these lost days back. It's cool and cloudy and a bit of rain every day. So here's another daylily from my garden. This is Apricot Delight. Tomorrow is my day off, so I'm going to Prince Edward Island to see a large daylily commercial garden and I'll be back the day after that.

Alice Ziesa

Rain everyday and more rain to come; I drove into Saint John today for a meeting at the hospital and then I drove back. I still haven't seen the city. So I'm doing some daylily dreaming before I get into writing my sermon. This is my 86th daylily, which is growing back home in Nova Scotia. Its name is "Alice Ziesa".

wild phlox

The wild phlox grows above the riverbank and along the railroad track. The walking trail that starts across the street from my apartment goes under the train bridge and beside Trout Creek. Here there are "creeks". Across the Bay in Nova Scotia there are "brooks". What is the differeence between a creek and a brook?

baskets

The town hangs these baskets along my street and throughout the town for the summer. I wonder what they feed tem to produce such a profusion of blooms.

Today is a holiday: New Brunswick Day. I think that it is a relic of the old Celtic Lammas, which celebrated the first harvest. For me the first harvest was a bag of beans that I picked from the potager before I left Nova Scotia last Saturday. It will take several days to eat them all.

stairs

These are my stairs. This picture ahould discourage anyone from visiting me who might happen to have mobility issues. The lease says that I am responsible for clearing the snow this coming winter. So I am praying for no snow and even less ice.

return

This morning I walked through my daylily field and deadheaded - 94 varieties and then the cats and I drove back to New Brunswick and to work tomorrow. It was hard to leave. It was such a happy month. Plus, I almost finshed putting the primer on the house and am well into the wallboard project, besides getting the daylilies up to snuff as they had been abandoned for at least a couple of years.

play day

We three friends drove to Yarmouth for lunch, feasted on the deck of a microbrewery and then drove home along the French Shore. We had a lovely day dodging into all the used clothing stores and strolling on the beach. We do what we do best.