First Harvest of the Summer

Sorry about the late post. Today we got the first harvest from our garden. Not bad actually. This year has proved difficult. The first plants we put out succumbed to pests and died. So this bounty is from our second attempt. We've got one healthy tomato plant, three peppers, an egg plant, and some kind of pickling cucumber.

More from the Nature Kids Discovery Zone

Near the Alicia Sanchez International School is an open space park that we recently discovered. A month ago the whole area exploded with black-eyed Susans. Here are some images I took of that.

 

Chapel on the Rock

 In 2013 Boulder country, as well as most of the "front range", experienced a stalled weather system that dropped over a foot and a half of rain in just three days. Everywhere that water flowed experienced severe flooding that scoured the landscape. A lessor known casualty of that flooding was the reflective pond in front of the Chapel on the Rock.  Last year the flood control measures on the Chapel property were completed and the reflection pond had returned. Here is what it looks like now.

Nature Kids Discovery Zone

We recently discovered a new park in our small town. It has the rather unimaginative name of Nature Kids Discovery Zone. It is located adjacent to the Alicia Sanchez International School. Getting there requires navigating a maze of residential streets. 

Some time in early July the wild flowers in the park just exploded and I knew we needed to visit it with our cameras. 

I love thistles, so I gravitated toward this one immediately.  

 Next to it were these tiny flowers that grow in clusters. What immediately grabbed my attention is the lady bug traversing the stem. 

Broken Things