Daughter, with rasberries

What the females in our household do, first thing in the morning, is go out and eat the rasberries that have ripened in the past 24 hours. The early birds get the...BERRIES!

The purple ruffled basil looks particularly voluptuous in the early morning. Haven't eaten any of it, yet, since we keep getting loads of sweet basil from our farm share, but I just love the way it looks. The weediness behind it is destined for the tiller later on this summer.
And my "Heart o'Gold" has put up one, georgeous blossom. Probably the only one we'll get this year, since I just put it in this spring, and the scent is heavenly:
Today is the one-year anniversary of our having arrived in Eugene.

Food!

Yesterday Donna (bless her heart) came over and roto-tilled the section in the back where the vegetable garden was/is to be. I meant to take a picture beforehand, of the rotting wood and the weeds, but didn't get to it. Instead I have the "after" pictures, of the new layout (in progress) and this Swiss Chard with its very appropriate cutworm collar.


So far I've almost tripled the veggie garden space I had before we moved. In the foreground of the picture above you can see the Compost Squash that I rescued from the Old Beds before they were tilled. We'll find out soon what it is.

I've also started a little garden spot in the back for NOD. She has a tomato, marigolds and a lavender right now, and soon will have some Cosmos and Nasturtiums.