SUNDAY COLLAGE........

 "We knew it would raibn, for all the morn a spirit on slender ropes of mist was lowering its goldenbuckets down into the vapoury amethyst......"

                                                          Spencer ( of course)

 "....Of marshes and swamps and dismal fens, scooping the dew that lay in the flowers........"

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".....dipping the jewels out of the sea, to sprinkle them over the land in showers....."

( colour,colour , colour)

(Under the grapes.....fav place)

(Verbeena in a garden rusted chair)

(Into the greenhouse)

(Rhodochiton hanging from its wrought iron basket......will last till fall)

 "Rhodochiton hanging from the baskets outside greenhouse. I trained them to hang in swags)

(Top terrace length)

(Looking to mtns from top terrace....)

"We knew it would rain,for the poplars showed the white of their leaves, the amber grain......."

(Sweet pea field with the curry)

(Cordelia in the ferns)

(Verbascum leaf...huge thing....near the sweet pea field)

(Verbascum towers above all else...)

(Looking thru to porch from top terrace)

(Porch. Another fav place to be on a hot day. Begonias. Fuschias, sweet peas, Calla lillies)

".....shrunk in the wind, and the lightning now is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain..." ((Before the Rain, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich)(Sweet peas. Everywhere.)

(Front steps leading up hill.)

(Still roses blooming....a surprise.....)

(Shaggy daisy on the edge...)

And my fav summer flower...sweet peas....)

(Spencer leaves for the day....heads for home behind us)

(Spiders are out spinnign their webs...almost August)

(And the moon was out. All pockmarked like swiss cheese....)