Lovely, I am seriously thinking of purchasing a Niobe, I have all blues, purples and pinks but no reds or near reds. Your photo makes me want one even more. Thanks for sharing! Linda

I think I just have a bad cold Ellie. Took some cold medicine and Sola went with me. Everyone and their brother was at Wal-Mart tonight. We met a friend of Lauren's there, a couple (the man was a patient of mine and doing great-yeah!), and our exchange student from last year's boyfriend's mom. I usually never see anyone I know there.

Fellow growers in NE PA, how are your tomatoes taking this chilly weather?

It's 64° here in Larimore; it's drizzling rain and breezy. After enduring Arkansas and Texas heat and humidity the past two weeks, this feels like Heaven. Today is our 24th wedding anniversary. We went out to eat and bought a new gas grill for the patio. We also stopped by the garden center so I could get more plants for the gardens. They are still very sparce. We added three Sweet 100 cherry tomato plants, four bunches of Kale, one jalapeño and two poblano peppers, and a North Star bell pepper to the veggie garden. For the cottage side of gardening I picked up four more white cosmos, three Wave petunias (two purple, one pink) another curly parsley, four Cleome plants, two Armani peonies - and two four-packs of Super Elfin impatiens for my neighbor's two patio pots. I always put impatiens in the pots for her. I wanted two "red" peonies and Wes like the Armani's color. I know nothing about them, but I guess I'll learn! Their supplies were very limited. I have hot Tetley tea made and a "Paul Müller Selb" Bavarian porcelain cream and sugar set to add to the table today. I love this larger, funky set. Yes; like 99% of all my pretties, they are thrift shop treasures!