Babies, plants, and politics

We have been in an Internet free zone here at Old Stone House the last few days.  Hence, no blog entries. On Monday, the baby birds looked like this:

And when they heard the camera click, they looked like this:

I have days when I feel like everyone does this when they hear me coming!

The vegetable garden is coming along:

Still no potato beetles.....  What's up with that?  Last year by this time the plants looked like refugees from the "Attack of the Killer Bugs."  They still produced delicious potatoes, but it was disconcerting to have them look like they were at death's door.  Since the beetles got under the floating row cover I was using last year to try to protect against them, I didn't even bother with it this year - and no beetles.  Maybe the row cover actually attracts them.

The magic beans are remaining a reasonable size:

For now....

And the zucchini and yellow squash provided us with our first picking:

We always try to pick them small, of course.  They taste better that way, and it helps keep the harvest manageable.  Pretty soon, though, you miss just one, and find it hiding a week later, when it has grown to the size of a baseball bat.  You laugh, pick it and heave it onto the compost heap.  But now the plant knows that it can trick you, and before you know it, you are headed down the slippery slope that ends with leaving zucchini on your neighbors' porches in the dead of night.

But aren't their flowers beautiful?

The groundhog update is good.  The hole is back, and the rocks thrown aside.  But it is outside the garden this time, and I can live with that.

Especially when most of the perennial beds are so full of promise:

This week, my work has had me, both day and night, at the General Assembly of our Little Blue State, the Design Review and Preservation Commission of Corporate Capital, and the Planning and Zoning Commission of Corporate Capital:

There has been neither time nor daylight for new baby bird pictures in the last two days.  The babies may even have their eyes open by now!  I am determined to get home tomorrow in time to find out.   

Comments

[Ali]

Squash already! I have zone envy... At least my squash look good under the floating row cover, with nary a sign of a striped cucumber beetle since the row cover went on.

Enjoy the squash!