Year turning and planning

 

Beautiful roses...the first a delicate pink that fades to white..the second a Bourbon rose with a heavenly scent...Compte de Chambord, named for Napoleon Buonaparte's grandson.

I'm still picking a little fruit most days 

I'm going to leave the rest of the redcurrants for the blackbirds, and I've started on the blackcurrants...while the blackbirds have started on the Jostaberries, which have hardly started changing from green. I have a feeling that I won't be seeing many of them!

I've lifted half of the garlic crop, before the hot weather disappears ..We have rain forecast for tomorrow.

The sky seventy minutes before solstice...and then almost there..

This morning was quite hot...after a little fruit picking it was time for a bus trip to town...a little shopping.... actually buying clothes!! Not a lot...just a couple of things that will pack small for the French trip....and next week's trip to Wales by train will be a good test run!!