GREEN ACRES VILLAGE plants love the humid heat.

June 30, 2026

Note: I forgot to publish this post yesterday. Humid high heat continues . . . plants continue to love it. Deer continue to eat gladiolas and stargazer lilies. What else is new? But wow is it gorgeous, the earth loving this humid heat! I can’t help but go along with earth’s gratitude. The contrast between what we’re experiencing and what others are going through could not be more profound.

https://x.com/rainmaker1973/status/2069448508856291780?s=61&t=aUBDiSUrvn0aSlRBtZx0wQ

 

So here’s yesterday’s post.

It’s as if we live in a rain forest . . .

Oh my . . . I was going to get to looking at the charts of both DJT and USA, but then the deer feast in the back yard brought me down low. They continue to munch at night. Both Stargazer lily and gladiolas . . .

Meanwhile, I just now finished a long post, full of photos, for greenacresvillage.org.  It shoulda been titled Garden Work Party . . . But it’s fun, and that turns it into a party!

Garden Party, 6/28/26, on a sweltering Sunday morning

 

As I sit here, having actually turned on the AC at 11 AM today for the second day in a row, I’m wondering: with the long spell ahead this week, will the electric grid go down?

An unexplainable feeling of unease. Is it just mine?

 

 

IMPERMANENCE . . . in “Gloomington”

June 28, 2026

The glorious Stargazer Asiatic Lily, the latest photo of which I took yesterday, showing yet more blossoming . . .

. . . came under attack last night. By a deer, of course, at just the right height for them . . . chewed off two blossoms. (Also took the beautiful single red rose that had recently blossomed.)

We figured the combination of fencing (not eight feet high, however) — and especially dogs (two), one of which definitely senses trouble and comes out, barking, at night) — was keeping out the deer who roam the neighborhood.

No longer!

Beauty destroyed. Just like that!

C’est la vie!

Impermanence!

Meanwhile, impermanence is producing huge bounty in our large, well fenced vegetable garden. Today’s surplus for those who walk by:

For more on garden goings’ on, see posts on greenacresvillage.org. I’m about to begin to create a new post on today’s work party . . .

It’s been so cloudy, rainy, and foggy and especially, unbelievably humid, for so long now (humidity at 100% at times; I didn’t know humidity could exist that high without rain!), that I’ve begun to call Bloomington “Gloomington.” And gearing up for the next few days . . . up to 95° temps . . .

Like living in a rain forest. And the plants all love it.