janet's garden

 janet's garden has been thriving this year . . yesterday she spent all day weeding and clearing, watering and building a mulberry branch trellis for the bean threads to wind themselves around . . 

 she has cortland and spartan apples ripening on her trees . . 

 and raspberries . .

 i believe these are fleabane daisies, of the erigeron genus. their ray flowers are very numerous and fringelike, differentiating them from asters. i didn't get a look at the bracts underneath. asters have several rows of bracts, overlapping like shingles. erigerons have only one or two rows.

 tiny figs . . they usually grow in bundles of three . . 

 macintosh apples . . 

 janet's favorite apple . . next to granny smiths . . 

 strawberries . . leaves, fruit and flowers.

 the delicious breakfast she made for me! fresh garden raspberries with grapes and raspberry viniagrette and poached eggs with polenta, kale, salmon and hollandaise . . for dessert we had rhubarb crisp!

 birthday gifts . .

 at home chanda and morgana worked on their roman history . . 

 because they would like to watch a movie later today . . it's been so hot . . so steamy . . we just lie around anyway . . 

 today was also the gay pride parade. we went out to buy a box of chocolates for their acting teacher and passed parade marchers who just had finished the march down fifth avenue . .

yetta supporters! . . yetta kurland is one of our local community activists who is running for city council. i'm becoming a big yetta fan myself . .