EAT the APHIDS please...

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain..." - Vivian Greene

It's rained so much even the cucumbers are bubbling for sun.

Flowers droop

Verbascum ( false sunflowers) are so huge this year they might need propping up. Bees will sleep in the flowers. If they ever bloom....

And the cats. The cats  are raining down. Rona  schmoozes...before the rain

Spencer isn't too sure what to do  with all of the attention, before and after the rain.

It pours. Making things green.

  Causing Simon to chase the bugs.....and stay out of Spencer's way.

When I was growing up, my mother never grew much. We lived in a forest. But she DID plant nasturtiums right by the back door.

In the mud. By the Hundreds. They would get covered with aphids. They would get covered with earwigs.

But she would pick them, wash off the bugs and add them to  salads of unsuspecting  Company.

Usually a few rogue black aphids, or earwig, would escape. I would watch them  crawl over the lettuce in the bowl. Earwigs liked to sit on the fresh cut tomoatoes on the lettuce. Conquerors of the aphids.

My mother, never  bothered by bugs, would simply whisk away the offending lettuce and replace it. The aphids looked like black poppy seeds. 

Complete with another adornment of nasturtiums.

Needless to say, Company spent most of the time looking under lettuce leaves to see if there were any more creepy crawlies.

One of those times,  I found a little slug under the lettuce. (Like the ones that are eating the sunflowers alive today.)

And no, lately I have not grown nasturtiums or fed them to any humans . And yes, black aphids DO resemble poppy seeds......go figure.

Now it's just neighbouring cats and green things...…..

and the rain. the ever present rain that makes all things grow......

"This is God's universe and he is the master gardener of all." -Suzy Kassem