Timely/Untimely Rain

Well, we have had some awesome rain over the last 12 hours and it looks like there is more to come yet today and possibly on Monday. Thus far it has been a nice soaking rain and is very timely. Unfortunately, it was a strong enough rain to thwart our Volunteer Work Day this morning. We were planning on planting the moss rose (Portulaca) collection, reception garden and some other smaller areas. However, we'll catch up on that next week and I can't complain about the rain. Janice and I were talking that we'd rather call off a work day for rains then a tornado or other natural disaster!!! It's all a matter of perspective. Above is the annual love-in-a-mist (Nigella damascena) photographed in my front yard yesterday. We've had this annual resowing itself around our garden and this is one of the few cases where I don't mind a little "movement" and repopulation of this engaging annual. The neat seed pods later in summer are also very interesting as is of course, the minute details of this colorful bloom.

This morning we had Janice, Big John, Larry, Bill O. and Sue (working the compost sale). We focused on indoor projects to start although Bill went out in the deluge to empty the garbage cans. I hope it clears before the afternoon wedding in the rose garden.....