At the beginning of May, I pruned the geranium of its leggy twigs and set them to grow roots. Now, just four weeks later, the jar is full of roots, so it is time to put them in pots.

One plant went into this pot that had the mother plant. There is a lot of space and I’d like it to fill in a bit.

The other one got a pot of its own. I could have used a bigger pot and planted it deeper, but this will do for now. I can always transplant it later.

The bargain rack verbena is very happy, spreading and blooming.

Even some of the trailing fronds have beautiful dark purple blooms.

The begonia is starting to show delicate white flowers with bright yellow stamens.

It is coming back full and green after its pruning.

There have been more visitors this past week. This little blue tailed skink came up to the top of the brick planter while I was watering. I think it was thirsty, so I pointed the hose at a depression on the wall and filled that with water. He saw that and went around to lap up a bit.

My Sweet Babboo put the bird feeder back up, although I thought it might be too soon. A nuthatch came quickly, hanging upside down to grab a bite as they like to do.

A male cardinal shares the seed with a pair of goldfinches.

A pair of house finches came by too. The male on the right has a blush of rose color on his head and chest. The female on the left is all browns and spots.

But then, what I thought might happen did. The bear was back looking for birdseed again.

I shooed it away by yelling at it and waving my arms, and it went back into the woods. My Sweet Babboo took the feeder down again, and now we will need to wait at least 3 weeks before putting it back up again. It takes that long for the bear to conclude that there will not be any more food here. Don’t worry, I wasn’t that close, my camera has a nice long lens.

Back to enjoying the flowers on the veranda, the four hanging baskets of petunias are blooming well. I hope I’ll see a hummingbird soon.

The lobelia is happy too.

The other bargain plant, the New Guinea impatiens, continues to thrive.

One afternoon when the sun came out for a brief time after a rain shower, My Sweet Babboo looked out the kitchen window and said “look at that, there’s a rainbow on the driveway.” I quickly grabbed the camera and went out to the veranda to try to capture a photo of it. This is the best of the bunch. It goes all the way to the ground! But alas, no pot of gold. The spot where it ended is where the lady slippers bloom, a place I say is where the fairies touch the ground. I only had one bloom this year, and I didn’t get a photo of it. Maybe next time there will be more.

I’ll have more sewing time this coming week with only two meetings to attend. Unfortunately, they are on the same day at the same time! But I have to go to the car club board meeting, so I’ll be a bit late to the guild area picnic. I hope I don’t miss show and tell!!

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