Happy Fourth!

Fresh pictures, evidence that both Luther and Avis made it through the storm.Luther's not talking about the storm.
Luther was cleaning all the moths out of the tent when I got up this morning, and Avis soon joined him (here's a moth meeting its end in Avis' bill).Baker, as always, inspecting my work.
I whacked away at what's left of the bleeding heart last evening, and decided that a Dreamsicle orange osteospermum was just the thing to take its place. So many cool plants come from South Africa, and osteopermum is one of them. Soon, Bill will be taking off for his second trip there. We're hanging all over him in anticipation of the drought ahead. The kids like having a dad large enough to serve as a human chaise lounge.