Fibermania

How can I stay indoors?

The garden is calling me out and I cannot resist.

And why should I? Didn't we work diligently to bring all this beauty to live here? Yup. So I find myself wandering with my tea out to the pond in the morning to watch the water lilies open with the encroaching sun. When the new leaves pop up they are a deep magenta, and then slowly change to green. The lily itself is very light regulated and at cocktail time it slowly closes and recedes for the night. Our frogs are so happy to have lily pads to rest upon and it is a riot watching them mount them, which isn't always easy. Often a frog will push at the edge and the pad will move around like a pool toy, until he can finally climb on. The pad then begins to sink below the surface with the frog's weight. The little guys do better, but most of the frogs are long past little guy status.

The Asiatic lilies in the front garden are just opening and are a different variety than the Stargazers in the pond garden. Still very fragrant. And HUGE.

More exotic daylilies are opening in the side shade garden. A lovely pale peach double.

And an almost white one with lime green throat. Someone spent a lot of time and energy developing these beauties, and far be it from me to just nod Hello and go back inside. I have a good book to read and a comfy chair under a tree. That'll be my day today.

I deserve it.