This carrot was not ready to pick. Ha!

More eggplant and cayenne peppers.

There are a lot of melons starting.

Lavender Queen or Lilac Time zinnias.

These perenialized California Giant zinnias reseeded themselves everywhere.

More California Giants

Lavender or Lilac Time?

New petunia, impatiens and salvia make up the flowerbed of pain.

Backyard phlox that perennialized from last year. I learned how to save its seed. Maybe no more four o'clocks next year, and more phlox.

Kim's peace rose.

The geranium on the porch bloomed for the first time this season this week.

Some cosmos. At least two varieties pictured.

By request, here's a shot of one of the wildflowers that have bloomed underneath Kim's roses. Not sure what this is, but we got the wildflower seed from Kim's parents - and still have a lot left over.

Some doves have been eyeing the backyard, probably for a nest. We've had to shoo them away from the porch ceiling fan a few times already.

The toad was in my shoe on Sunday when I was about to mow the lawn. He didn't like being disturbed.

Do you see anything?

Here he is, one of the baby mockingbirds was on the pot - containing the small zinnia that just won't grow - next to the shed on Sunday morning.

I snuck around and shot this from the other angle.

Another mockingbird baby was hiding in the tree. Though once I started to mow on Sunday, they all started to fly away. A little encouragement goes a long way.

Random wasp