Where We've Been ... And Where We're Going ...

The Head Gardener and I have had precious little time and/or energy for blogging this past month.  Mother Nature hit the fast forward button and spring has rapidly morphed into summer.  We've seen 90+ temperatures almost every day this past week.  We live in fear of a repeat of last summer's hellatious heat.  

The HG and I have been in something of a plant buying frenzy, which is followed by even more frenzied efforts to get plants into the ground and settled before summer truly arrives. We could spend all day every day outside and still not be done.  It's hot enough that we usually call it quits between 1 and 2 pm.  

We're feeling not only the time constraints imposed by Mother Nature but those imposed by our upcoming absence.  A week from today we'll be in the mountains of North Carolina for the 2012 Garden Bloggers' Fling!  

Have we arranged for someone to water while we're gone?  Nope.  We're still cogitating on how best to handle that.  I think we're both hoping for a few timely rain showers.  Once there, we'll be too busy enjoying other gardens to worry overmuch about our own!

We know we'll come home to find a few casualties but plants are replaceable ... the friendships and experiences we'll share with fellow garden bloggers are anything but!