Having already drafted yesterday’s post I joined the family on the patio chairs being entertained by Ellie in her bath, during which time I wandered off to have a look at Jackie’s planting from earlier in the day.
A creature that none of us recognised flew silently past my left ear and came to rest on a dry stem not yet removed from, appropriately enough, the Dragon Bed. Unusually, it remained long enough for me to return inside to collect my camera and to photograph it. In fact it remained in situ for much of the rest of the afternoon, circling those who disturbed it and returning to its chosen perch. Later research revealed our visitor to be a broad bodied female chaser – a dragonfly native to our New Forest.
Now I was grasping the camera I photographed a few flowers, each of which bears a title in the gallery.
This morning Jackie unclogged the Waterboy Fountain, and this
afternoon transferred the astrantia photographed yesterday in its pot to the soil in the Pond Bed.
After lunch I converted this post from Classic to Blocks edit and changed the category to Garden. I needed the assistance of Wayback Machine to identify missing photographs which I then traced in my iMac Photos, omitting rugby photos taken from the TV screen because they were not crucial to the post and I had had enough,
My gardening tasks today, partly this morning, partly this afternoon, involved dead heading and weeding.
I then photographed a batch of scenes which should put yesterday’s images into context. Again titles are with the galleries.
This set pictures the Rose Garden.
This evening we all dined on Hordle Chinese Take Away’s excellent fare, with which Jackie, Dillon, and I shared Asahi beer.