An update in Pictures

So happy I planted zinnias. I think I might go back to the mini variety next year though.

My ground is hard, and the carrots are protesting.

Prep for SCA camping underway. These are the metal tent pegs that hold up my Canvas single-bell wedge tent. I paint them red for a few reasons: 1)Easier to see so you don't trip on them, 2) Harder to loose in the grass, 3) red is one of my heraldic colors.

 

 

Sunset at Pennsic War, held every year at Cooper's Lake Campground in Slippery Rock PA. It's always a heck of a time. Caught up with a lot of very old friends, made a lot of new friends, and I'm already plotting how to make next year better.

The cat sitters warned me that a storm had come through and taken out some trees. None were directly on my property, but I was sad to see this monster oak had fallen just up the road from my house.

Got a second generation of swallowtails started in the carrots

This big lady and I scared the crap out of each other. She's welcome to eat bugs in the flower bed, but I have no desire to find her any closer to the house.

Did a good 8.5 mile hike in Oxford arorund Hodges Dam the Sunday after I got back. Doing consistent 20 minute miles when I'm not stopping to pick up garbage.

Sunset over the Community Farm fields. I'm very lucky to live close to views like these.