Rain, Stop, Rain, Stop

Friday's rainy morning left everything washed and the air clean.

 



Fully bloomed daylily.

Rainy, watery views.

Dewy, watery leaves.

Raindrops clinging to the trellis.



Saturday's morning clearing was good for going out and about, for events like reunions with friends, walks about old stomping grounds, although a bit humid.  The weather would have been good for gardening too, but there is only so much one can do ... some photos of the garden were about all I could swing ...

The new rose...

...blooming, determinedly, despite my dilly dallying in settling it into its new home.

Dianthus, also starting to bloom.

Honeysuckle, blooming and fragrant.

Salvia, I hope - the few seeds that took, all at the rim of the pot.

Clematis - more flowers.

The new clematis.

Interesting orange bug with black V on its wings.

Another little critter.

Side view of the little guy.

In the mandavilla pot - a little alyssum, maybe?

 

...in between a nice run and once-in-a-lifetime 20th reunion; those took precedence to the gardening tasks.  Mother Nature cooperated with the reunion attendance plan and held off the downpour until the indoor evening dinner, and broke shortly after dinner for a nice evening of hanging on the steps.  A nice trip down memory lane.





Then this morning was on and off rain.  Terrific for the plants, which seemed refreshed and dewy... 

Fresh, hydrated rose, still in its shrink-wrapped nursery packaging (from Mother's Day weekend)...

...overnight, joined by another bloomed rose.  Can the rain get through the shrink wrap?

Daylily, hydrated.

Ditto the red dianthus.

Close-up of the hydrangea.

Wider perspective of the hydrangea.

The pink pop'em seems to be standing taller; its brethren, too.

More honeysuckle, sweet-smelling and delicious.  Not sure how there can be both yellow AND white flowers on one plant, but there they are.

 

... The changing state of precipitation was considerably less terrific for trying to get in a second weekend run (to try to work off the reunion desserts and wine and drinks and late night nostalgia pizza from Saturday's festivities) and attempts to plant the new plastic-bound little rosebush.  But ah well - what can one do - only so much, deferring everything through the day with each little drizzle.  The run did happen, late, and some rosebush-planting prep was begun,...

 

The dianthus plants were moved from the big planter designated for roses to a little pot off to the side, ...

... leaving only the pansies in the designated rosebush planter.





... but the rosebush prep was paused on account of the arrival of a sudden deluge.  Torrents coming from the clouds.  Too much.  I was driven inside.

 

 

But when the deluge ceased, the bluejay returned, briefly.

 

But in the wake of the deluge, some of the flowers got drenched, and did not fair so well.

 

The fresh daylily from a few days prior dried, and was blown to the ground.

The catmint flowers were heavy with the weight of rainwater.

The second rose was sopping wet.

One of the daylilies looked beaten by the heavy rain.

Clematis petals blown to the ground.

Clematis sans a few petals.

Mandavilla leaves wet and slick.





But the deluge begat a lovely rainbow at the end of the day.  The rosebush will have to wait to see it.