Isn't this the neatest thing?

Some kind of butterfly (can't be moth, it was middle of the day) was flitting around the side of the house.  Three of them, in fact.  I wonder if they were drying their new wings because they all floated around the porch area and up and down and around us for quite a while. They seems to float into us, then out into the sun.  It was really something to watch and then they were gone.

This doesn't do the wild roses any justice.   All my domesticated roses died, even the ones from the "Lvoe Garden"  I planted last year with two kinds of roses.   

These wild ones have endured the weather and although for just a short time that they bloom unlike domesticated that can bloom over and over,  they smell wonderful!  When you are sitting on the couch in the living room the smell comes in from right there in the front window and from the front of the house in the front door.   I have tried to use many wild flowers instead of investing in domesticated and I have to tell you, the wild are much better! Just think of the free garden decor you can get:   daylillies, roses, grapes, daisies, blackeyed susans....

I have been trying to keep up on the garden.  I think I have picked the last of my peas and yellow beans.   My pole beans are being choked out by themselves because I didn't do a very good job of giving them climbing room.  

I must tell you I was very blessed with green beans anyway!   The Amish woman down the way has her new garden this year and it is flurishing.  She had a huge box of green beans that she shared with our family.   She said she couldn't look at another one to can.   So the other day when the girls went riding I cut and froze many gallon bags of beans.  Lots of casseroles this winter!