flora & fauna report

Spring has sprung on the S.S. Octopus of Loooove. Click the images to make 'em big.

I wanted to plant Dahlias in honor of Delia, because her name was originally Dahlia. Then Dehlia. Then Delia. This pink beauty burst out to introduce herself last week.

This is the afore mentioned lotus blossom.

The fushia is dropping handfuls of gorgeous pink, purple and violet blossoms all over the dock.

There is absolutely nothing in the world like waking up and going to the upper deck to spend a few moments of early morning sunshine with a vine of bright purple blossoms nodding their heads in the breeze in a salute to sunrise.

Jasper likes to keep an eye on the marina. if anything is amiss, he sounds his Siamese foghorn.

Our new kayak!

I forget what these are named but I picked them out because they were purple.

I love that sunflowers look like they're waving and shouting an excited "HI!". This one is an Autumn Beauty, and the other blooms should be various October
colors like orange and yellow and chocolate. We grew these from seeds!