I had hoped to get a lot done over the weekend, but life intervened.

It's a downpour this Friday afternoon.

When I woke up Monday morning, a huge maple branch had fallen into one of our largest rhododendrons.

Once the power came back on, the big worry at our house was the ornamental trees.

Enough already. Please stop. Moss is growing between my fingers.

We gave up and watered our garden over the weekend

Don't trust the weatherman to get the water to your rose (sung to "Subterranean Homesick Blues")

All this week we have been promised a chance of showers, and yesterday a line of thunderstorms was going to bring us rain and relieve the heat.

Gardeners have a love/hate relationship with rain. The plants need it, but it keeps us from getting out in the garden. But Friday morning was perfect.

We cut our first lilacs this weekend, which always brings a nice aroma to the house. I love lilac time. But with the soggy weather, that and picking asparagus was about all the gardening we did.