A June & July Update....

I've never known such a busy time both workwise and in our own garden as it's been over the last few months... well infact for quite a lot of this year!  We have had such a dry summer here - bar the last 2 days that is and for a good part of June/July I've had to do quite a bit of much needed watering too which has cut out any possibility of spending any time on my own blog or catching up on all of yours' - I've really missed this too but something has had to give and hope to get back to this v. soon if I get my own way!

Over the last couple of months I've been saving up quite a collection of photos to share on here and at last a brief moment to do a posting...

One of the biggest joys this year have been all the feathered visitors we've had - for a number of weeks we had Mummy and baby Woodpecker visiting - breakfast consisted of small morcels from our fat balls!



We've also had various families of swallows which have been nesting in a number of sites in the granite outbuildings too - none of the scary situations we encountered last summer!

I wish I'd had time to photo all the baby birds around the garden and the woodland - here are just a couple more of my favorites. These two little cheeky Blue Tits and not to forget the little Wren.

The garden earlier on this summer has been a picture of colour - less so now but that is usually the case - here are some of the photos of the garden to give you an idea...

Some of my favorites amongst the plants too...

Then not to forget some of the beautiful roses either...

And last but not least I've got to mention the crop of currants this year, cherries and now the plums - it's been an incredible year for fruit and there are some fabulous blackberries on their way...  I do hope you're having a great summer where you are too and hope to catch up with all your blogs as soon as I possibly can... Happy Gardening....