I picked these this morning for tonights dessert of cantelope, grapes, and wild strawberries. I can’t wait for dinner.The raspberries are coming along. Right now they are hard green bumps on the vines. Soon they will be ripe enough to eat.

An intense thunderstorm raged through the area about 6p last night, complete with hail the size of black eyed peas. One tomato plant was lost, along with one sunflower and one bean. The parsley doesn’t look very happy but I think it’ll be ok in the end.

The garden is doing quite well otherwise. The beans, melons, potatoes, and carrots are all coming in nicely. There is one cucumber plant that has flowered (it doesn’t look very happy since the hail last night) and the tomatoes are growing up tall and strong. The herbs are doing well although the oregano seed I planted is not coming up however, the basil seeds are. The catnip got pounced on by someone and it’s struggling to come back but I think it will now that the weather has turned to summer, humidity and all.

Taken a few days ago, before the hail

I looked up from my computer after a branch broke and saw her standing there eating the raspberries that are small, green, and hard. I ran to the kitchen to get my camera, came back, and captured this beautiful creature. Instantly I felt Mother Earth deep in my soul, reaching out to me and telling me to overcome my anger, hate, rage, loathing. I felt this beautiful deer reach into my heart and melt my soul, connect me to Our Mother, break down my barriers.

I wondered why she was alone, without any of her clan and then I thought maybe that’s the way she wants to be.

I hope she comes again to eat a belly’s full. She will get no ill will from me, even if raspberries are my favorite snack. I’m well fed and have access to food (even if it is GM laden), she does not.

Midsummer is right around the corner. As the days shorten the garden will grow higher. Soon bounty will come all at the grace of Our Mother. The dryness of early spring has melted away into the wentness of early summer. Once again it is raining.

All around the rasberries are blooming and beginning to bear fruit. The strawberries have lost their flowers but no fruit has come yet. The Bluberries haven’t flowered yet. The garden is doing well. Pictures when it stops raining.