View from the Innside

pumpkin, pumpkin, on the wall

Once my squash and lemon cucumber vines started growing, this vine was taking off across the driveway, much longer than the other vines.  I just gathered it up and tossed it over the wall, just as I would throw the tail of a really long scarf over my shoulder.  I thought it was a lemon cucumber vine but didn't really look at it closely.

Now it's hanging down clear to the ground on the other side of the wall and this started growing.  Well, maybe it's one of those strange little round squashes?  After all, I did get a random mix of squash seeds in the packet, called "Summer of Squash."  (I don't think I'll do a seed mix again.)

Then it started turning orange and I looked at the leaves.  Surprise!  It's a little pumpkin!  Since it didn't get big before turning color, it's probably one of those little sugar pumpkins. 

"Life is like a box of chocolates--you just never know what you're gonna get."

in love with delphinium

I'd never grown delphinium before we moved here.  It's one of the very few really blue flowers.  The first year we were here and our daughter worked as our housekeeper during summer break from college, we had gone to a nursery and she really loved the delphiniums, so I planted some.

They're in the planters that run along the front of our house.  To the left are the little purple blooms of nurembergia and even farther left are just a couple of pink blooms, the last of the Mexican primroses.