Summer is definitely here!

The weather has been so great and I have been spending so much time in the garden. I don't call it a yard because it has no grass. But it's not like a vegtable garden...just all plants, flowers and the little pond. I love the little pond because it attracts so much life. We actually don't even have mosquito's because the water moves too much and we have a number of bats which eat a lot of them every evening. We like to sit out at twilight and watch the bats do their figure 8's in the air. Next thing is to put up bat houses to attract more of them. We had thousands of tad poles in the pond in April. Where did they all go?

We do have a lot of frogs. Luckily Seamus never bothers them. When we go out after dark to potty and Seamus walks along the pond path you can hear all the frogs jumping in the water. Here my guys are checking out all the critters.

And this time of year is great for seeing baby birds. This little guy just wasn't too sure about flying away yet and sat pretty close for a long while. All the birds are great for eating snails. Every evening you can hear them banging the snail shells on the rocks to get the little snail out.

All the flowers of course are lovely too. The rose has bloomed and the campanula also.

Now I am waiting on the water lily and passion flower to bloom. We picked out a tree to be planted in the garden...our tree...a very special one. More about that in a next blog.