A heat dome is descending. At 100 degrees F, plants in pots need constant care. Cooled pasta water and leftover tea is put to good use. I’m trimming up everything as perhaps this helps. Maybe not.  Does it put most pressure on to stimulate growth? The compost is hot. I need to mix it with the coffee chaff generously provided by the local roaster and then spread it around. The foxglove need trimming. Save the seeds.  Then there is the fire haze.  Do we need to speak of all this? My local pool water was 90 degrees F. 

It’s time to make the pilgrimage to one of the most magical of places, Kenilworth Aquatic Garden National Park. Anyone who has read me over the years knows that blooming lotuses in masses bring back memories of Srinagar, Kashmir. I don’t have pictures from those times. The header is a wide angle look at Walter Shaw’s paradise. Take a look at the lovely day.  

Books took a dark turn.  You can find out about them here.

I said good bye to two dear friends. 

Have you even heard of a peg loom? A simple transportable loom thought to have originated with the Vikings.  I bought one at the Shenandoah Fiber Festival last fall.  I’ve posted my first attempts here.

Finally, nature heals.  My sister turned me on to a live cam on an eagle nest in California.  Although a continent apart, we shared eagles hatching, growing and finally fledging.  We witnessed parental tenderness with the fluffy eaglets as the adults mindfully moved their sizable talons around the small babies. And then we witnessed the brave first flight (actually one was accidentally pushed out by its sibling!) Find you favorite animal cam… https://www.geowebcams.com/en/webcams/category/live-animals/