After the rains

Boy did we get a storm this morning--sheets of horizontal rain--the wind blew rain through the west-end doors of the building where I work, not just into the vestibule but right into the ground-floor hall, and around a window on the ground floor that obviously needs to be recaulked. I haven't actually looked at my west windows; I think they're okay. I was astounded and happy that no branches fell at my house--traffic had to be routed around a small town near here because telephone poles and lines came down! There was about an inch and a half of water in Taenzer's pool, almost to the 2nd joint of my forefinger.

It didn't exactly clear off, but it did stop raining, and when I came home for lunch, there was the roofer! He got about halfway done yesterday, but today he didn't get so much done--he didn't have his helper, or the entire day to work, and he had to clean up a bit after the storm. I hope the lawn-mowing guy will show up tomorrow and work as hard as the roofer.

Poor Auguste Renoir took quite a beating, but St. Swithun is on the east side of the house and was protected from the wind, and is looking very beautiful, with blossoms over the top of the arch.

AND the siberian iris have blooms. I'm so happy--a friend gave them to me, and they're so beautiful, like delicate dark blue butterflies. I hope you can see them in the pictures, because this camera doesn't differentiate between blues very well.





That driveway bed is looking so pretty this year, and it's going to be really boring in about 2 weeks, when all these late spring flowers are spent. I've got some sweet peas that I planted way back in March, I think, and that are still only about 3 inches tall, and none of the morning glories sprouted, so all that will be there will be petunias and dusty miller. But I'm sure enjoying it now.

Here's a couple of pictures of the flowers I bought for the garage bed. I think they look pretty nice. And in the one picture, I really like that heuchera--I think it's called Caramel--by the box bush, in front of the daylilies. It's really coming into its own, I think. I hope it gets to be enormous--I'll have to look and see how big they get. I've got some heuchera Plum Pudding that are about 3 feet high and wide.

We're under a tornado watch right now--there's some sun, but there's more clouds, and it's humid and uncomfortable. Bleah. I hope this run of weather is over soon. And that it gets nicer, not worse.