Evening garden photos this week, for a change. I seem to take an awful lot of photos in the mornings, and write about my mornings as well, but nothing much beats a summer evening while the sun's setting, does it?
Garden this week- same story, third or fourth (or fifth?) verse- more weeding. More, and more, and more. The weeds have really been kept at bay, thanks to the very hard work of my family (Not me. I have barely pulled a single weed). It really will be worth it in the end, though.
We pulled up the bizarre cinnamon basil that accidentally got planted instead of about half of our regular basil plants, and replaced it with some new basil plants. So, half our basil is ready to begin to start picking, and the other half is just getting started.
Our carrots had some sort of bug eating them and we are spraying them with soapy water and sprinking them with cayenne pepper.
Two of our tomato plants caught a virus (huh?) and so we pulled them out so it wouldn't spread to the others and replaced them.
Other than that, things are going great. Deer have seemed to have stayed away, we have avoided several hail storms over the last couple of weeks, and I have been able to take some beautiful, fun photos. How nice that we will always have these of our first "real" garden.
One day I will learn to take a lovely photo without backlighting, the sun either rising or setting behind the subject. Until then I will keep on taking lovely warm, golden, hazy softly lit photos and trick people into thinking I might know what I am actually doing with my camera. It's not a big secret, folks. I don't much care what type of camera you have, or what your knowledge of photography is. Just see that you have the warm glow of natural light behind your subject and click, click away. You can't go wrong.
