Butterflies at Crater Lake

We were in search of a waterfall but turned down wrong road at Crater Lake. But the little side trip wasn't in vain. Hubby spotted butterflies while I was taking photos of flowers by stream. These are silver bordered fritillary butterflies, for the silver spots on underside of wing. So pretty!

Granddaughter Cuteness

Don't ya just want to tickle her toes? Such a cutie at 2 years and so huggable.
Photo taken by her mommy...thanks!

Square Foot Garden Update

Here's the garden late July. It's grown since last update. Lettuce, in clay pots, are nearly finished for the season. It was good eating. Roma tomatoes finally coming on. Sorry I didn't post it sooner. I forgot where these photos were....ooppss!! Hid them with wedding photos and it just got busy here with work and getting ready for our trip.


Wax beans still growing and delicious. I wish I had more of them. They were more plentiful than the green beans. Our strawberries have grown all summer and we've enjoyed the few we've eaten.

Evening sun on the leaves looked so pretty.

Alien tomato? We found out that a slug did this. We put a cage around our garden to keep pests out but one infiltrated and caught us off guard. We put more slug bait out and we've not had any more trouble.


At this posting, we've got more roma tomatoes ripened. More color on all the tomatoes. It's been cooler and we've not watered them everyday, which is a good thing. The walla walla onions are getting bigger and carrots coming soon. Bell peppers and cucumbers didn't produce. Short growing season due to cold weather early in spring.


I'm pondering what to garden next year. Less tomatoes, more beans. Maybe another 4x4 for just beans so that cucumbers and bell peppers would grown better. I think the cucumbers were overshadowed by the beans. Live and learn.