🤣 This corn?? (Photo taken July 12th)

July was WILD. Not bad, very good overall. But nowhere near what I would have anticipated in any way. Much of the yard work and gardening was ignored, though, and these tomato plants have gotten unruly. I took some time to try to get them going UPWARD tonight, hoping to improve airflow below.

I did it. It’s filled and will hopefully be warmer than it was last night when I get home today. (Well water is 🥶🥶🥶.)

**SPOILER** Planet Nude Sticker Club My July drop arrived today, and it just makes me smile so broadly!

The yard work doesn’t wait for me to have a weekend… so I am squeezing in chores in the early mornings and even in the later evenings. Soon enough, the evenings will be swarming with mosquitoes, so I need to get stuff done now.

I had a few rough days that kept me inside and resting over the weekend, but luckily the weather was AMAZING this evening, so I was still able to get some work done. This will become a sea of daisies. 🤞🤞 (No repost, please.)

I found a series of these nude gnomes in the free online catalog, and I just started printing a third today.

Does this count?

I’m in a mood to see pretty things. Comment with a photo that represents “pretty” to you. I’ll go first. This is Buzz, my baby dog. (He’s not a puppy anymore, but he is absolutely my shadow.) Share something - anything - from your photos. New or old, doesn’t matter. 🙂

Sometimes the lighting just calls to me. This might be my first (ever) participation in monochrome Monday, too.

Here’s more highlights:

We spent the day (all of it) at the Kennedy Space Center. I highly recommend it. (And it didn’t feel like pro-USA propaganda, as I feared it might. It also wasn’t pro-SpaceX or -Blue Origin or any other.)

We spent a couple of hours at a free play arcade this afternoon, specifically to play some pinball. It was fun! (I’m not very good…)

I hesitated to take photos, as it’s a public beach. But I found a break in the traffic and hurried to snap a few before anyone else got near the frame.

Happy Birthday! Here’s some noodz for you!

Ok, thank you! I gave mine support because it looked necessary, and I might keep it to simply guide it upward.

Naked ladies! I planted naked ladies! (You might otherwise know them as “surprise lilies” or “resurrection lilies”, but who calls them anything other than naked ladies??)

It’s not exactly warm, but the sun felt great on this WNGD. You’ll never guess what I planted… But now I’m indoors, working on potting-on my seedlings that have been growing in the basement for the past few months. The season is coming!

World Naked Gardening Day is this Saturday (the first Saturday in May), so of course the weather is going to be on the chilly side. Luckily, I get to garden in the buff rather frequently, and I’m pretty adaptable to cool temperatures. Learn more about WNGD: wngd.net

It’s a weekend of nice weather, which means a weekend of work in the garden. Yesterday, my purpose was to move rocks/stones from the old barn foundation out into the garden beds. Today, we’re removing more grass to make room for perennials.

I got a new toy today, and I had some help getting it unboxed, setup, and calibrated. And now I wait for the filament to be delivered.

A storm front blew through our area this evening (all good at home), and I drove home afterwards. These were a couple of neat clouds that I captured, all on the back side of the storm.

In case you are not aware - a message to my transgender/gender queer siblings:

I got to enjoy the first nude arsenic opportunity of 2026 today. It was almost HOT. Two trees made it into the ground. I hope they like it here.

I promise that it’s me in the video. And that’s my car stuck in the road at the end of the driveway. We got a little snow overnight and it drifted a little bit through the day today. Is it Spring yet?

I’ve been working on assembling this LEGO set over the last week, and I’m only about halfway done. (This is the botanical garden, and it has more pieces than any set I’ve assembled previously.)

This fiddle leaf fig was growing in an imbalanced way, and it was too big for this corner. I took a leap and chopped it up, and after a handful of weeks, it’s growing! I’m quite pleased… so far.

Last night was my second seed sowing party (for one). I have wanted to grow more annuals (and veggies and perennials) from seed to spend less money, and this year it’s finally happening!

It’s seed starting time!