dry spell?

it seems as if i have had a serious dry spell in blogging lately, because i haven't posted much. however, really i have been dying to post about several things that are happening around here, mostly to do with wildlife. right now, though, i've been swamped with work (which i have to tell myself is a good thing, right?!) and on top of that i developed a nasty sinus infection yesterday. i usually can kill it with large doses of echinacea, so i'm keeping my fingers crossed it's all gone by tomorrow.

since i'm tired of waiting to post these things, i will just have to settle for pictures with not a lot of commentary. so this first post is dedicated to an update of how my garden is doing.

the picture up top is a flower on my zucchini plant. isn't it gorgeous? here's another shot of it, less close up:
i look at these blooms every day out my daughter's window; they are so amazingly bright yellow.

and i finally got a shot of my growing grape tomatoes:and here's an overall shot of the garden now that it has many less bare spots than it first did:

since i took this picture a week ago i tried to transplant some of the tiny cucumber plants to the area just outside the view of the bottom of the photo, but they do not look good. i moved 4 of them, and only one is standing up at all. the other 3 look pretty dead to me. oh well. it was still worth a try, because i knew they weren't all going to grow on top of each other like they were originally.

more stories from me tomorrow! hope everyone is doing well.