[Cross-posted at My Left Wing]
Good morning, and may you never have too much fun! Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.
The weather in Denver for the past week has been just about perfect. Not too warm -- highs in the 80's. A little bit of rain -- much needed. The veggie patch is growing by leaps and bounds, producing beans, cucumbers, zucchetta and, now, corn!. Still waiting on the first tomatoes, though. The tomatoes got off to a slow start this year, as it was too hot to set fruit in early June.
And the night-blooming flowers are at their summer peak. This is a patch of self-seeding nicotiana I have in the back beds. I love this patch because of the vividly-colored flowers. I need to spread some light-colored fabric to collect the seed -- nicotiana seed is difficult to collect directly off the plant, as it isn't ripe until the seed-pods pop open, and when they do, the seed spills to the ground. Occasionally you'll find an upright pod on the plant, but it's rare.
The Garden Blogging Garden Party was a helluva lot of fun. Of course, the party ended up largely taking place in the kitchen. Doesn't that always happen? That's why we keep expanding the kitchen. It was somewhat on the warm side to be hanging about outside, although I gave many tours of the garden. The consensus lusting was after the 7 ft. corn stalks which were just a few days from producing their first ripe ears. Sorry guys -- if we'd have had the party this week, I could have thrown fresh ears on the grill.
I'm not posting all the pictures because, hey, I'm polite, and some of the pictures aren't that good, and really aren't that flattering (blackmail, anyone?). But here you can see, starting at the lower left, Colorado Luis' wife Lisa, Bumblebums up there at the top, next to Bill Winters and johne.
And down below, that's pacified, developer of the Soapblox network, and proprietor of SquareState, a fantastic blog dedicated to Colorado politics, on the left. On the right is Colorado Luis, about whom I could say a lot, but I won't in the interest of privacy.
Although I have a picture of the Polish Princess (a friend whom I've been trying to get signed up to dKos/MLW for quite some time), and johne's wife Julie, I'll not post it. Really, you don't want to see such lovely women in such an unflattering shot. Other attendees whom I didn't get pictures of were ByFoot, TakeBackTheHouse, and em-dash. Maybe next time -- Mr. Frankenoid said perhaps we should do another blogger's party at Casa de Frankenoid after the kitchen addition is finished and -- ta da! -- as we start primering today, the end of the project (started in Spring, 2002 with groundbreaking on the addition) is finally in sight.
It has been a busy, busy week. On Wednesday I too Da Boys to the amusement park, which always beats the crap out of me. Not as young as I used to be. And we're moving our offices at the end of August, which means work is just a bitch. Along with the normal day-to-day workings of a law office, I get the joy of buying a new computer system, contracting for network cabling, finding new vendor for telephone services and equipment, sending out change of address forms to the whole world, dealing with the moving company, the coordinating with the management of two office buildings, and archiving files.
Also, we are working on putting together the Garden Blogging Calendar, as a fundraising effort for yKos '07. We really need your stuff, guys, or this thing isn't going to fly. I know there are a lot of fantastic photographers, with some fantastic gardening pictures, out there -- you've been posting them on garden blogging for the last year and a half.
We're taking photo submissions: see last week's garden blogging for details; e-mail think2004 at gmail dot com for further instructions. You can see what has been uploaded already by going to our Flckr page
We also are taking text submissions, so e-mail me, frankenoid at conen dot net, with your words of wisdom, humor or perseverance.
So, as we enter the dog days of Summer, what's happening in your gardens?