Summer has finally arrived, and although the hop yard is keeping me busy full-time, I can't forget how lucky we are to have our getaway at Hawksbill Cabin, and how beautifully it reminds us every year of the changing seasons.
Today, to welcome July, I've got a couple of random photos I managed to take while I was tooling around doing errands at the house last weekend. In the first one, one of our barncats - the one we call "Momcat" because she is the mother of one of the kittens we adopted - is hanging around the brick terrace supervising me. At the moment I was down by the pool setting up the robot and cleaning out filters.
I guess our relationship with her has evolved so that she is one of those "outdoor pets" that you hear about. We feed her when we're there, and there is another neighbor that feeds her and the other barncats when we're not there. She shows up right on queue when we drive up, popping up on the brick terrace by the time we're packing in the second armload of stuff from the car.
The second photo shows some of the bee balm blossoms we got this year, which seems to be a good year for them. There's a patch of them that comes back every year out in the back by the little shed - sometimes it's more robust, and sometimes less. But with all the rain, at last we have more than 20 flowers on this.
It was in bloom the first time we came by to look at the house, back in 2007. It was an exceptional show that year, too - and I had never seen the plant before then, so I spent a few minutes checking it out.
By the time we closed on the place, the blooming season was over, but I did a little research to learn more and found out that it would likely come back year after year.
And sure enough it does, so it is one of the things I look forward to now every summer. Things go 'round, you know.
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