Garden update

We have had a few sunny days and no rain.  Well, no rain in San Pablo, but there were absolutely torrential rains in the city and just a few kilometers away.  Anyway, the garden is really poppin'.  It is hard to believe that there was virtually nothing there less than two years ago. 

And this might be the height of the season, the best it has ever looked. 

The zinnias will fade and I will get a second crop in, but the first is always the best.

The paths now are grass covered and actually look quite nice.  I always plant fragrant plants along them so that when I walk by I have to brush against them and release their fragrances.  Here is a nice large lemon verbena, which they call citron here, and an equally fragrant scented geranium.

And there is so much life all around me as I work out there, birds, bees, mariposas and even an occasional goat or two.

Lots and lots of butterflies

 They refuse to work with me and keep flitting around.

However, this beautiful hummingbird or colibri did sit for a portrait.

 I love the detail of the plated feathers on its breast..... such a rainbow of colors.