Back From Vacation

There's nothing quite like going on vacation to get a different perspective.  It was good for me to stop looking at my garden and mentally urging everything to grow.  Our family took a camping vacation with 10 other family members.  Enough said.  However, we visited Steamboat Springs, CO, and it is absolutely stunning there. 

  

I was so in the moment and busy with so many other people that I did not take many photos.  Here are a couple that show off the area's beauty.  Indian Paintbrush, Daisies, Columbine, and Lupine were all flowering.

I took a trail ride around Steamboat Lake.  To say it was scenic would be faint praise.






 

It has taken me 3 days to get to look at my garden.  Not too bad!  There were definitely weeds, but the mulch of peat moss and grass is doing it's job.  The grass clippings that I have been curing were ready, and this evening I mixed them with peat moss, and spread my third batch around the garden.  The green/brown coloring of the mulch is not as striking looking as straw that I used last year.  It blends in with everything else in the garden.

The beans are climbing up the trellis that I made for them.  These are my first pole beans, so I am very excited to see them!










Tonight we had some baby lettuce and radishes from our garden.  Delish. 


"The most serious gardening I do would seem very strange to an onlooker, for it involves hours of walking round in circles, apparently doing nothing."  -  Helen Dillo