Our deck garden

Ellen has been putting in a lot of work on some little gardens. One of them is on our deck.

Our deck garden

Flower box

A black cherry tomato plant

Our lives have been pretty routine. John and Cynthia did come over Sunday afternoon and we had a nice visit on the deck. It was very pleasant listening to the birds and the wind in the trees. John attached a recorder to one of our trees in the woods and we will get a recording of the dusk and dawn bird chorus here at our place.

Ellen has been working on her gardens and I have been working on tapes and doing some reading. I’ve started reading a biography of Benjamin Franklin. I think Lise Sparrow mentioned him in her sermon on Sunday and that’s what got me started on it. It’s a book by Edmund Morgan that we’ve had around the house for some time, but I have never actually read it. Morgan was a friend of Ellen’s
 father, and he’s a really good writer. And Franklin is a fascinating person.