Gathered flowers yesterday to bring inside

A bit more time spent indoors than I’d like the past few days. Smoke from Canadian fires with thunderstorms. weird combo.

Listening to thunder while gazing at the blood red sun is eerie.

Luckily there is enough weather here to move things along & the air quality is going back to normal. I grabbed a few chances to walk around and observe the happenings in the gardens & made it down to the big lake with Minnie regardless.

In the garden…Lupine seed pods. As the flower spires wilt away these stalks of seed pods develop. In the fall the pods will have weathered sufficiently to split and scatter the seeds

Budding eggplant and its protective spikes. Careful of those little f’rs!! they are no joke

Bell peppers & every other kind of pepper are loving the greenhouse heat. I don’t know if it’s a “thing” but over the years I’ve come to plant my peppers close together. I think they like it.