Photo Update!

Here's a mix of June pictures: 

Amaryllis 

You must strain to see what's trailing behind the doe in the next two pictures. Her fawn, only days old, follows through the corn field. Over a week we spotted the mother deer in the lower fields. She would hide the little one in high brush or just within the woods, coming and going in order to graze and camouflage the fawn. Here they flee from us opening the gate entering the gravel drive.

Milly scoping the grounds.

The following photos of the garden are a week old. Most of the vegetation has doubled in size. We have been harvesting salad greens (spinach, swiss chard, and a mix of arugula and lettuces) and a few zucchinis are ready for picking. More pictures to come.

Cucumber and Marigolds.
The marigolds here naturally appeared after the seed heads left in the garden from last year were tilled throughout. Their smell, supposedly, repels animals.  

I'm picking in the salad line with corn to my right. I'm standing at about the halfway point of the length of the garden. 

Directly next to salad greens are cabbages, brussel sprouts, and broccoli (in order); tomatoes, garlic, basil, eggplant and peppers make up the back corner. In between the corn and tomato/pepper corner are a line of green beans and carrots; and sunflowers along the fence line.

Tomatoes and Corn

Eggplant and Onions

Scarecrow

 In the next two, Sam the Bull is ripping this invasive 'autumn olive' (spell check?) to scratch his bulky neck and face.

The recipe for these wild mint juleps comes from a family tradition of a Delta family from the nineteenth century (see Lanterns on the Levee).  We might have to make these a farm tradition reserved for when we're feeling lofty.