To summer!

They started to bloom! :)
This post is an ode to beauty! To summer! to the blossoms!
...and to my toil and patience ;p

To Summer

~William Blake

O thou who passest thro' our valleys in
Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat
That flames from their large nostrils! thou,
O Summer, Oft pitched'st here thy goldent tent, and oft
Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld
With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.
Beneath our thickest shades we oft have heard
Thy voice, when noon upon his fervid car
Rode o'er the deep of heaven; beside our springs
Sit down, and in our mossy valleys, on
Some bank beside a river clear, throw thy
Silk draperies off, and rush into the stream:
Our valleys love the Summer in his pride.
Our bards are fam'd who strike the silver wire:
Our youth are bolder than the southern swains:
Our maidens fairer in the sprightly dance:
We lack not songs, nor instruments of joy,
Nor echoes sweet, nor waters clear as heaven,
Nor laurel wreaths against the sultry heat.

(--> some photos of our blooming garden plants)

After one week, here's the progress!

This is Sweet William /Dianthus barbatus.


Here's another bloom of a flowering plant;

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This one is Sampaguita

Hmmm...These are "surprises", since i don't know them ;p

Have you seen a Papaya? Here's one growing ;D


Down is of San Francisco. It blooms only twice a year.

Clover!!!!!!!

Here are some visitors spotted in our garden:

A butterfly with withered wings, I saw this one afternoon.

Our naughty cat who loves POT.

..and a stray cat.
Looks like it has just finished a military service.

FIN ;D