Beltane                                                        Garlic Moon

Night has slipped upon us again.

While traveling across the Atlantic, I enjoyed the seat back screen because it allowed me to watch the flight tracker whenever I wanted.  One screen of the flight tracker that intrigued me showed the plane’s path on a map with the terminator curves where daylight and night meet.  This same screen also had a small sun which marked the location of dawn.

This world has many wonders and an advancing shadow line separating night from day is one of them.

Beltane                                                         Garlic Moon

Out bagging apples.  This is, according to what I’ve read, the only organic way to grow apples.  It’s fussy and difficult to some extent since a lot of the work is over the head and requires fine motor skills to seal the ziplocks.  Still, better than spraying and it’s one and done, unlike spraying.

Ran out of bags so off to Festival to get some more.

Beltane                                                 Garlic Moon

Up and semi-alert.  Almost home.

The garden grew, though the carrot germination has not been good, nor the collard greens or pac choy.  Could be the nights have been too cool.  Everything else sucked up the May water and pushed themselves.

Kate planted lots of marigolds, petunias, alyssum and coleus.  The siberian iris are in bloom and the hosta and dicentra have grown large with the extra water.

Of course, rain is good for the weeds, too, and Kate has done a lot of weeding.  This week we’ll focus on the orchard.  I have to get out with the bees and probably will have to put bags on the apples again.  Our apple crop this year looks bountiful.

Gonna work outside some to get the body clock reset even more.  Maybe tomorrow, my powers will have returned in full.