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Garden fluff and one very chill squirrel.

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My new garden bed is starting to fill in…

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But I wish the woodchucks hadn’t eaten all my mid summer blooms. So much for strategically timed planting.

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The geraniums are doing well.

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I was a bit late getting these in due to my mystery illness, but they’re flourishing now.

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Our Japanese Spirea surprised me this year by branching off in white on the right side.

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It’s always been solid pink…

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But not anymore.

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Close up of its fuzzy blooms.

The bees love it.

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And yes, that’s one entirely too chill red squirrel.

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What else is blooming?

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It’s weigela time.

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A deciduous shrub that has definitely enjoyed the over abundance of wet weather we’ve had this year.

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It always blooms…

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But rarely this much.

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And the hummingbirds are loving it as much as we are.

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Elsewhere in the gardens…

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Snow in summer.

I’m not sure of its real name, but that’s what we always call it.

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An early bloomer that tends to shrivel up and die in the dry heat of July and August, it’s putting on a lovely show now…

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Unlike its poor yarrow neighbor that the woodchucks have nibbled down to a nub.

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Wrapping up day 5 with ice cream.

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After a marvelous seafood lunch and cocktails in Perkins Cove, we reversed direction and walked back.

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Where the views were still amazing.

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Spending time with some of our favorite people always makes me smile.

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The gardens surrounding the resort at the end are lovely.

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And are always worth a few photos.

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Saying goodbye to Ogunquit, we headed up Route 1 for a well deserved ice cream break.

After a bit of searching, we found an amazing little place with an anything but little selection.

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In case you don’t want to count, there are 74 flavors.

And if you can’t decide?

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Why have one when you can have 6…?

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Their bathroom was fun.

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And even though I couldn’t escape the pickles…

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A good time was had by all.

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❤️

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Blooming things and a close squirrel call.

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The hostas by our kitchen landing are having a good year.

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A really good year. Tall and full of pale purple blooms.

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The day lilies that were dug up by our neighbor’s tractor when our water line burst a few years ago have finally come back to life.

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Half are yellow, half are this interesting double ruffle peach and coral.

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Sadly these two by the road are full of weeds..

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But the colors are spectacular.

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In other news… His Lordship almost caught the dreaded red b*tch.

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That rotten red rodent was sitting on the stone wall chattering at him, taunting him … swishing her tail and daring him to lunge.

So he did.

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But sadly, he missed… and she disappeared into the wall.

Almost, Dudley.

Almost.

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What’s blooming?

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Let’s take a walk around the garden, shall we….

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Candy cane dianthus.

Almost good enough to eat.

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A tri color pot of begonias on the kitchen porch.

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A red astilbe, clashing with the barn red barn.

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Pink astible out back.

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I love the blooms on these flowers. They’re delightfully weird.

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I can’t remember what kind of daisies these are, but they’re doing well and no one is eating them… so I really don’t care.

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Purple bee balm.

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A fabulous magenta shade.

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Something purple.

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Something red.

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And something wonderful the woodchucks nibbled down to a nub shortly after I took the picture.

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Gardening woes.

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It’s bad enough I have to battle baby woodchucks stripping my flower gardens bare.

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They’re adorable, but it’s very hard to make them stop nibbling.

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I heard shredding Irish Spring around the plants helps, so I’m all in.

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My other problem this year?

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A mouse.

Who beheaded all my lovely marigolds and dragged the blooms under our shed.

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I didn’t even have a chance to photograph the pretty alternating yellow and orange combination before all I was left with was this…

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Because as soon as the mouse ripped off all the blooms?

The chucks ate 3/4’s of the leaves.

But I fixed them.

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I planted a row of taller crown daisies and no one likes those.

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