summer nights

Summer nights, there's not really anything quite like it. I love that feeling that comes when you just kick back on summer nights.  I can't help but think of how the entire year builds to these moments.  The moments when the works day is done, the sun is setting and all you have left to do is enjoy.  Take a deep breath and savour the feeling of summer.  I really most sincerely wish everyday was summer. But alas, we must must celebrate the season as best we can while it is here.  I was out in the garden this evening, candles lit, tea in hand and snapped a couple of photos.

I found a home for my new agave parryi truncata just to the right of the yucca gloriosa recurvifolia 'bright star.'  Recently I decided I need more 'bright star' yuccas in my life.  Seeing them in the sunshine really changes everything.  It just glows - even at night in the candle light.

I feel like this speaks so much of the garden itself.  Yucca, agave, palm, and succulent loving is a huge "theme" if you will in the garden.  This picture pretty much sums it all up for me.  Shortly thereafter a group of raccoons decided to throw cherries down at me from the trees above and I felt anything but love.  But for a moment it was rather blissful.  So in the miss quoted words of Paula Dean, "I wish you love and great plantings from my garden to yerrrrs."