Did I take a wrong turn somewhere?

Seriously? It's 95 today. And so humid you could cut the air with a knife. This is ridiculous. IT'S JUNE, Mother Nature! JUNE! And we are in MASSACHUSETTS! If I wanted to live in Florida I'd MOVE there. MAN. It's hot. It's just gross and uncomfortable. Florida, would you please come up here and reclaim your weather? Thank you.

In other less grouchy news, last Friday was my husband's Great-Aunt's 96th birthday! She is the sister of my husband's dearly-departed Grandmother. Can you even imagine 96 years on this Earth? That's a lot of years. And she looks absolutely terrific. Maybe like she's 70.

Anyway, for her birthday she wanted to go to this place right on the ocean called Kelly's. I've talked about Kelly's before because they make the world's best lobster roll. It's an iconic place in Massachusetts. It's where my husband wanted to go for his birthday, as well! So, we met up with the Great-Aunt, her daughter, and my husband's mom to have a feast. I brought this as a birthday gift:
Isn't it so pretty?

I inherited that vase. The ribbon is something I've been hanging onto for years. It's from a gift from forever ago! And those pretty hydrangeas are from my back yard. I have a million of them this year! Anyway, the arrangement was a big hit with the birthday girl, so that was great!

And people? It's been hot here. I'm not sure if I've mentioned it recently. But it's been REALLY WARM. Like tropical-ness and heat and humidity. Have I mentioned that I do not prefer this weather? Because I do not. In any way. At all. Ick. Ick. Ick. However? My plants? Are SO very happy. SOOOO big and lush and green and HUGE and about a month early. Even my butterfly bushes are starting to bloom. What will the butterflies do? The bushes are supposed to bloom coinciding with the migration of the butterflies. Man. Mother Nature is so screwed up this year!

Anway, here are some of the pretties I've got going:

I don't know if you can tell, but the flower boxes are getting really big! The papyrus is about 3 feet tall now and looking just great! Very early to be this big!

Here is the perennial grass, the nasturtium and to the left there, a stonecrop that has a zillion blooms on it. It's not supposed to bloom until late August.

Here is that pretty hydrangea on the back side of the house.


Tiger lilies are going crazy, as is the coreopsis. These were given to me by a friend probably 8 years ago. They just keep spreading and spreading!There is also that neat vine-ish thing growing on the fence. I'm sure it's some terrible weed, but I like it!

The tomato plant I put in about a month ago is gigantic now! It's nearly as tall as I am already! It's in the middle here with my very tall, tall phlox:

It's an organic grape tomato plant. Looky!

More from the yard tomorrow.

I'm going to go complain some more about the heat. And humidity. Ick.