20210612 New blooms

 

When we get rain after a dry spell it brings on a lot of new flowers like this one which was near one of the compost heaps.  I love the delicate colours.

20210611 A good morning's work

 

After a flurry of planting, weeding, cutting glyricidea and using it for mulching Le Jardin looked like this after work this morning.  All ready to go once we get a bit more rain. 

After what seems like a long time suddenly the farm feels as if it is up and running again.  I think its partly to do with a small drop in temperature, some breeze and a feeling that there might be some rain soon.

20210610 Nurturing the young

 

It felt very hot today and this morning we gave all the very young seedlings extra water.  Normally I don’t like doing that but the seedlings are finding it difficult to survive without it.

20210609 String patterns

 

This morning I tied up these snake gourd and was rather liked  the string patterns that ended up decorating the bed.  These snake gourd have taken a lot of effort to get going but finally they seem to be growing.

20210608 Rain today

 

I took this picture this morning to show how our plants are suffering in the heat.  Then this afternoon we had a lovely rain that brought the temperature tumbling down and made all the plants perk up.

It will be lovely weeding weather tomorrow!

20210607 Harvest

 

I continue to be surprised by just how much we are harvesting during this hot time, especially papaya.  It’s the same for everyone else of course although people seem to like our fruit, maybe because they are quite small.  For the time of year we have quite a variety of things. 

 

20210606 Fossilized earth

 

I have this huge piece of fossilized earth as a feature near my house.  I love how it looks in the sun when its possible to see all the different earth patterns.  I also like how in the picture the shadow rests on it.

20210605 Cactus flower

 

It seems hardly any time at all since I saw these flowers last year.  So much has changed and yet hasn’t changed with aspects of the pandemic seemingly so ingrained with ordinary life.  And now we are in lockdown again as we were last year.

Yet the cycles of nature continue and I am so glad that I am able to work with them.  For me it’s a real gift.

20210604 A Ganesha papaya

 

Dear Mahindran gave this papaya to me after it had been offered to Ganesha during the Friday puja.  Hopefully it will give me some special energy which I really feel I need at this time.

20210603 What a little water can do

 

Rajan told me that he had recently started giving this lemon tree water and that is why it is producing so many lemons.

We argue a lot about how much water we use, but it looks like it was put to good use in this case.

20210602 New life on an old tree

 

This is the ‘hug me’ tree in the Garden of Unseen Helpers.  I love how the new growth is coming and how the sun is shining on it.

Could this be happening to me?  Something new growing within me?  I can hope!

20210601 Snake gourd flower

 

Some of our snake gourd plants in the Seed garden have a lot of these beautiful flowers on them.  I love how delicate they are although they are very small.

20210531 At last, some beans

 

Its been so hot these last weeks that all the ‘ordinary’ vegetables have been struggling quite a bit.

But we must have put these beans in at just the right time because now they are starting to produce.  This time of year we really do have to be grateful for what we have.

20210530 Different colours of the storm

 I got this picture today from a volunteer which she took on her phone.  I took a similar picture when the storm struck last week but mine is much less colourful with much greyer clouds.

Maybe she has used a filter or my pink clothes changed how the colours appear.