seen around

Last year, Mike planted the vegetables in the big flower bed off our deck, and put flowers out in the oasis. This year, he put the veggies in the oasis, and planted a riot of interesting wildflowers right off the deck. There are six-foot-tall sunflowers, poppies, black-eyed Susans, and all kinds of other flowers that I may not know the names of but definitely like the looks of. In the minus column, having these flowers so close to the house means having plenty of bees around every time we go out (so far, knock wood, none of us has actually been stung -- the bees are much more interested in the flowers). But in the plus column, we've got our own butterfly area going on. Check it out:



Max in particular likes to run up to the window to point things out to me. You can see some of the flowers behind him, but mostly I just added these pictures because Max is adorable.