Well Hail

Might as well be considered snow in June. It is frozen and very cold, possibly even super chilled. Who knows what layer of the stratosphere it fell from.

You could call it really fat sleet.

A quarter inch of hail fell in ten minutes along with an inch and three quarters of rain to wash it all down.

It piled up in drifts. Some were so big it seems, the traffic was stopping on the byway to gawk. Then after supper I saw the snow plow drive by. Yes the snow plow. I know what it looks like.

The wild cultivated gardens were thrashed mercilessly. So much for bold foliage. It will remain holey for the rest of the season.

Culvert Falls was roaring and for the first time the water flowed all the way down the hill to the center of Creation before vanishing into the ground.

Well Hail!!

These were squashes and cucumbers.

This was the roadside vegetable garden Tossed salad anyone?

Things were going so well and looking so perky. Now there will be a period of adjustment. Good thing I have faith in the power of the Lush.

Earlier today on the other side of the universe, where please, have mercy, I hope it did not hail, the flagstone gravel path in the Fountain Garden was finished.

It rained almost the entire time I was washing six bags of sand into the gravel to give it more cohesion and stability. Not fun. I was hosing in the sand during the sprinkles between down pours.

The Lady of the House gave it a two thumbs up.

It does look sharp. Now the durability test can begin.

Here's a gratuitous mermaid shot. I hear tell from a very reliable source that people have been gravitating to Twin Falls Pond and not wanting to leave. That is high praise indeed if it is winning out over the world class view from the front veranda.

Amazing what a few fancy thirty five dollar fish can do.