We saw a very big caterpillar (we suspect it is one of the kinds of the Luna moth.This one is as big as my middle finger and even longer.

These are foxgloves that I planted just this spring. I was not expecting them to bloom this year (my other cluster of foxgloves which bloomed earlier were from previous years.) 

These photos are long overdue...Can anyone provide me the name of this flower?

These pansies were those that I planted last spring and bloomed last July...

Small deep-red flowers that looked like tiny roses...

This plant is like hosta (or is it hosta?), the flowers of which grow in clusters

and this is a close up of those clusters of flowers on a tall stem (as tall as me)

The next photos are the different lilies I have near my vegetable garden.



 

One thing I love about my new surroundings is that it is full of life, albeit not of human, but of the other species that long have been missing in the cities of Metro Manila, coupled with the cool breeze of clean air, not to mention the different colors in my gardens...

I captured in my camera this butterfly as it sucked the nectar of the coneflower...

A bumblebee doing the same thing with this unknown-to-me flower...

A grass spider I found amongst the wild raspberries...

and I don't know what this caterpillar-like thing held in place by a single thread of silk(?) on an onion leaf. I have never seen these much in the Philippines during my adult life. 

Here's a zoomed-in photo of a squirrel in the public park near the ocean when we went to the Boothbay Harbor. He was getting ready to sneak in to the garbage and get some chips. 

I recently dug out potatoes and carrots (though they were not quite ready yet) for use in my seafood chowder (leftover lobsters and clams from our Lobster Dinner affair. 

Peaches from Mom and Dad. We ate them as is. Loved them! I reserved the small one plus one large to be used for muffins. It tasted good, too! 

On our way to the Boothbay Harbor for the traditional Lobster Dinner, we had to meet Stacey where this monument stood:

This were the signs below the old monument.

These were my most recent harvest from my vegetable garden. I am drying up all the onions. I have started harvesting tomatillos (the green ones) sitting beside the cucumbers here. I have probably harvested a total of 50 or so cucumbers up to the present time. I started picking jalapeño peppers as well. And the ripe tomatoes I am stocking on my countertop to further ripen. I use them for dips and sauteeing.

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My corns started flowering...

And I have been enjoying cucumbers freshly picked from my garden. I eat them with vinegar diluted in water, plus onions, black and red pepper powder, and salt...

I also get onions, as needed for my cooking, from the garden. However, I am not yet harvesting them at this time...

I have also been getting not-so-red tomatoes. Combined with patis, they are the perfect appetizers for fried fish, nilagang baka, etc. 

I was picking wild raspberries in my garden, and I saw this spider... 

Mom said these are coneflowers.



This are nasturtiums, the seeds sof which I sowed last spring when I was quite sure (upon my in-laws' advice) that there would be no danger of frost. My readings said these are edible.

These were the bales of hay on our field. The red thing at the far right is the roof of our house. We had to store these bales of hay at Dad's barn for winter grass feeding of the cows.

My cucumbers are growing fast...

corns were almost blown down by the recent thunderstorm, but I managed to restore them to upright position...

my tomatoes have lots of small green fruits already

Potatoes are so bushy now...pretty soon they will wilt and I will have tons of potatoes for salad.

My carrots have also grown bigger after I have thinned them...

My peppers and onions...

My beet greens which I left behind to experiment whether they will have those bid red tubers which are nice to include in potato salad for color variation.

What could this be? Is this a kind of mushroom that is more advanced than the usual in that they have flower-like growths? I could only surmise it is a kind of mushroom because of the lack of chlorophyll that gives the plants its green appearance...

This is a tedder, for fluffing up hay so it will dry faster...

Gary baled the cut hay (which Dad did earlier)...Had to finish that before it rains again (tomorrow).

These tractors are the big boys' toys...Men are always looking for an excuse to use them...and haying and baling are "play" to them.

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More daylilies (of a different color than the first I posted)...these are those next to my veggie garden.



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