solarbird | as promised

Getting this out of the way: zomg l33t Scrabble tiles! Plus I was just told that tomorrow is Talk Like a Pirate Day. Arr.

In other news, and much to my surprise, the flyer we got in the mail from a local (good) nursery noted that now was the time for late-season vegetable planting; and conveniently, I had a packet of carrot seeds

spazzkat had gotten in mail, rather inexplicably, from his health insurance company. So I've planted them! We'll see if I get anything. I tend to doubt it, but you never know. It's awfully late in season, and, well, I've never planted vegetable seeds before, so this is a first. They were dated as having been packaged for planting this year, and where I've put them gets a lot of sun, so here's hoping.

It really was a lovely day for gardening in general, really. I pulled out a lot of encroaching ivy and blackberry, and hopefully tomorrow the weather will be similarly fine so I can go at some of the main garden beds a bit more as well. And if it's not, well, at least the carrot seeds will be well-watered.

We also walked down to the market; there's only a few weekends left before it's done for the year - last market is October 2^nd - and I want to get down there each time while I can! Hopefully, it'll all come back next year. Today's shave ice flavour: strawberry and lime. Sadly, they had no kiwi today. But we did meet a friendly cat along the way, who says "Mrowp?"

I've started my re-read of Twilight in the Desert and will post more about it after that's done. But since most of the point of this post is just to put up those last two rose photos I promised, here they are! First, a rose, in a raised planter behind the house, against the retaining wall: