The garden got the good soak that it needed.

 Tornado warning for our area today, so of course we had to go outside and see - amazing clouds, a rainbow, luckily no tornado. We did get some much needed rain.

 The past few days have been cooler and Miss Maggie joins us for our evening walks (~1km).

 Baby Barn Swallow out of the nest.

 July home photo.

 

Molly waiting to go for a walk.

 

The pets have learned to stay back when we are checking the bee hives.

 Some of my favourite flowers blooming at the moment.

 GingerSnap! waiting to come inside.

 First large tomatoes of the summer.

 Another bee swarm - same hive keeps swarming just like last year. 

 

Another state of emergency for the province due to wildfires further north. Smoke in the air made for a red sunrise. 

 When a family member likes to plant a lot of garlic in the fall, there are lots of garlic scapes to use in the summer (luckily I grew lots of basil to make pesto).

Molly asking GingerSnap! to play

 Evening walk - haze in the air from forest fires.

 Lots of little moths for the hens in the long grass.

 Bike ride today to this abandoned farm - every year the barn roof seems a bit lower.

Day 1 of Tour de Fleece - a merino/nylon blend I dyed for socks.

 

 Cloud shelf, brought a bit of damaging winds.

I had to go on the roof today, so took the opportunity to take some pictures of the gardens -

Flower gardens

Vegetable garden

 

Lots of flowers blooming for the bees - this bee is on sweet yellow clover, and a field of canola is in the background.

 

Happy Canada Day!

Natures fireworks - thunderstorm this evening, with amazing clouds.