Wonderfully Overcast

Just Hanging Out

This week started out drizzly and sufficiently overcast that the toads, which usually move to cover as soon as the sun comes up, stayed out.  The one featured above is in our little backyard pond.

Last week’s efforts to recharge my creative energies were moderately successful.  I spent a fair amount of time outside, getting the last of our garden beds planted.  This included transplanting eight of the tomato plants that I started from seed on April 13th.  I gambled that that the smoke haze from wildfires in southern New Mexico would screen some of the sunlight and help the transplants to take.  The larger plants took some damage but, overall, it’s going well.

Might as well get some good out of the bad.

The grey days also mean that those of our flowers that close up when it’s hot and bright—like chocolate flower and desert four o’clock—have been staying open longer, so the view from my office window is very pleasant indeed.

The foster kittens were cleared for their spay/neuter surgeries last Friday.  If all goes well, by Wednesday evening they will be fosters no longer.