EARLY IN THE MORNING ~ LENTICULAR CLOUDS

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It was very early in the morning about a week ago that upon opening the curtains I saw this surreal sky out of my bedroom window. I had been hoping to see Lenticular clouds for a long time and I still don’t know what woke me that morning and gave me this amazing spectacle, because everywhere I looked I saw that the sky was dotted with these shaped clouds, I am not sure why Salvador Dali came to mind.

And so I walked out in the early morning air to check over the garden. Lots of lush growth has been happening since the rains started some weeks ago, the more delicate flowers and the lavender have been affected, but there are plenty of new flowers opening.

  • Lots of plants in containers this summer
  • My favourite hydrangeas
  • And wonderfully scented honeysuckle
  • A lighter colour hydrangea
  • Feverfew
  • Last year’s poppy
  • Some type of hypericum
  • New to our garden, Rudbekia
  • Love those colours
  • Marrows growing well
  • Our earliest potatoes
  • Making some calendula oil
  • Endive, beetroot and broadbeans doing well enough
  • An age-old jasmine plant
  • Types of allium
We have had some garden produce, but the broad beans did not do too well. The endive grew very well and the leeks that I sowed back in spring with weeks in-between the sowings are really thriving, which is great because Ian and I love leeks and eat them everyday in all sorts of dishes. I did set quite a bit of potatoes and soon they will be ready to dig up, but that is a job that I will share with my youngest grandchildren as they love that. It’s wonderful to see their eager faces as they dig up the spuds! One big but delightful blunder I made this season is that I sowed plenty of peas, but also sowed sweet peas at the same time, and when I planted them out I thought I was planting edible peas only to discover just recently that they are all sweet peas, we will have plenty of beautifully scented flowers, that’s for sure.
Some of the landscape around the lovely little town of Skibbereen, how beautiful it really is.
  • My calendulas in the old bath tub!
  • And the children learning about a wild type of hypericum

And so the summer is passing quite fast. We are not cocooning anymore but life is not yet back to normal. Nicest of all is that our grandchildren have been allowed to visit us again, and as we just heard that schools are to start again next month we are making the most of our times together.

At the moment I am working on an inventory of everything that grows in our garden, firstly because parts of it is very overgrown and I want an overview in order to plan better for next season. And secondly I like doing stuff like that. I find creating a word document with added photos works well, and I print out a page per raised bed and some pages besides for the rest of the garden. It’s a nice little project. I plan to grow at least some more flowering shrubs and right now I am checking out which ones would be most suitable for our smallish garden. I’m reading up on pruning too to look after the shrubs that I set last year. It’s such an absorbing activity. When I think of it my garden is my gym, it gives me a cardiac workout, it gives me fresh air, sunshine (sometimes), it de-stresses me and gives me plenty of possibility to meditate and enjoy its beauty and it even gives us organic and delicious vegetables.

What a fantastic blessing.

22 thoughts on “EARLY IN THE MORNING ~ LENTICULAR CLOUDS”

    1. Yes I did not mind in the least as I do love the scent of the sweet peas so much and there will be plenty so the whole house will be scented with them 🙂 It will have to be deepfreeze peas for us, you cannot get fresh peas in the shops here.

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      2. Yes, I read that the sugar content of the fresh peas changes after 10 minutes and they taste quite different, not sure if this is true and can’t remember where I read it.

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    1. Ha you came to my rescue Derrick, how lovely of you to find this picture of Dali’s work, I was not far off the mark there. I think that In nature you are either walking into a memory of a painting or when looking at certain paintings you are walking into nature, that’s what I always experience. A million thanks for finding this link Derrick, much appreciated.

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