You can go out at night now and actually smell summer.. the pine trees and the other blossoms. It's a wonderful odor. Went for a night bike ride and was slapped by insects the entire time.
The peonies opened up three days ago. The ants camp out on the unopened blossoms a week before that.
The pine trees now have the lighter green colored outer branches indicating the new growth. You don't get a lot of indication from other bigger trees, other than new leaves every year, that they're actually growing. But the conifers do this every year and it's beautiful to see the new tips.
Our lone rhubarb was already subjected to a big picking from which maybe 10 cups of chopped rhubarb stalks were freed. I love raw rhubarb stalks dipped in sugar or with honey poured on top. Part of my love is the funny looks and groans I get from other people when I eat it.
Peas are about a foot and a half tall and about to put flowers out.
I planted a couple more strawberry plants. Tonight I picked three nice, ripe berries from the established june-bearing plants. The berries tasted amazing. They were so fresh they were almost acidic in the mouth which I had never experienced from a strawberry.
The garlic looks like it is just starting to put out scapes.
We are still in thunderstorm times. Maybe 3 nights a week for the past 3 weeks we've had the threat of rain. Some of the farm plantings are behind as a result. I've gotten just about everything in that I want.
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