Nora is 14!

 DQ Ice Cream Cake

For you Tolkien fans, the shirt says "Not all who wander are lost."

CosPlay: a troll character from an online comic series called Home Stuck.

Nora has made the horns for several characters by either sewing or molding clay and then painting them. She used a gift card to order wigs, so soon she'll have multiple character costumes.

Summer at 95 Eginton

Where is this field of daisies?

 The Side Yard!

 The cherry trees are in cages to protect them from the deer.

 Raspberries

 Pollinators at work

The first red raspberry - not long now!

Currents are ripening too!

 Lillies

The Front Yard

Every thing is lush an green after some seeding and rain every second or third day!

They are predicting cooler and wetter than normal in S. MN so we can hope to stave off the brown for awhile I think without watering.

The Garden

Tomatoes & Basil

Strawberries

Klara's Flowers

The Back Yard

Apples

 The Ground's Keeper

The Back Boulevard

We saw our first monarch caterpillar on one of the milkweeds last night! We are either trend setters or our seeds are traveling, as we have spotted other butterfly habitats in the neighborhood this year.

Rick's a PhD!

Dr. Tim Lensmire and Dr. Rick Lybeck after a successful defense!

Quotable quotes from committee members: "It was a pleasure to read!" and "He's such a great thinker!" Of course I knew about that second characteristic before one of his committee members told me that - but it was nice to hear that I'm not biased!

Strawberries

The first strawberry of 2015

Three days later - the first bowl of strawberries!

Nora's Choir Concert

All songs are posted on Rick's FB page, but this is the highlight with Nora taking part in a quartet at the beginning of "Home."

A death in the family

Our poor guinea pig, Ginger, died in May. He lived a long, well-fed pig's life.

 When Klara brought me this shoe box, I said it was too big. I was wrong!

 The kids sent him off with a carrot - to pay the ferry-pig at the river Styx?

RIP, Buddy!

Girls on the Run 5K

 

Before (above) and After (below)