The season started early but I always wait until the last week of May/first week of June to plant the hot-weather crops. I hope mine do as well as yours are!

Michigan's weather is not very predictable. Right now we are experiencing what usually arrives in August. We've also had frosts in May.

all the cacti are in full bloom and it is lovely. rally. hope u have a good crop this season.

Ugh. I got the melons in the ground late, so probably won't be ready till August. Nothing on tomatoes or cukes yet, but do have blooms.

Having to water nearly every day.

That it snowed here last night. Flurries at my elevation but there's snow on the ground about a thousand feet higher up. It might get up to +60F today but the heat wave returns starting tomorrow. I'm glad I put down straw in the garden, everything is holding up well, we had no frost, only got down to +36F. Supposed to be the same tonight, some of the higher mountain passes were closed this morning.

All this while the rivers are pretty high, once the heat returns, could be a problem when all that snow comes down and we get a little more rain. Two years ago we had a thousand year flood that closed Yellowstone and caused the park to build a new north entrance road.

Fingers crossed. Meanwhile, it's hot soup for lunch.

Stay cool as you can and have a nice cucumber salad or something like that.

They are heading to Yellowstone, today.

Windy and rainy, maybe a little snow yet. Which entrance are they taking?

Beartooth Pass is closed and probably Dunraven pass too.

It should clear up tonight but that means big wind.

I hope they have a good visit anyway.

We camped at Yellowstone during one of our cross country camping trips. There was a grizzly bear warning issued and the rangers did a presentation about precautions. It was not a restful night.

Very early the next morning my Dad decided to go on a walk-about. He climbed up the side of a steep hill to watch the sun rise, had a look around and then headed back down, holding on to what ever saplings he could to slow his descent. At one point there was nothing left to grab so he just steadied himself and ran down the slope. Towards the bottom there were some low bushes that he couldn't avoid so he jumped over them. He was a very athletic guy. Well, there were some campers in a pup tent on the other side of those bushes. He managed to barely miss the tent, heard them wake up in a VERY startled way, and he just kept running. Afterwards he said they probably had a good story about their close encounter with a running grizzly bear.

When I was a ranger there, some of us had "naughty tales" that we shared about naughty things we were involved with in earlier times.

My mentor told me about when he and his cousin had graduated from high school, they lived about an hour from the park, decided to go for a weekend. Ever since cars started driving through there have been wildlife jams when traffic is stopped until everyone in front of you take their picture and moves on, often with all roadside parking sloppily filled with temporarily abandoned vehicles. Well these two cousins decided to start a jam, because all you have to do is stop and look off in the distance and fourteen vehicles will instantly crowd around you to see what you're looking at, they hatched a plan. One stayed with the car and the other went the long way to a group of trees or shrubs and shake the branches. As people stopped, the one by the car would tell them that there was a bear out there. A crowd would gather and the two rascals would take off with a good laugh.

Naughty children. The sun is coming out so I hope things are going nicely for your kin and they get to see/enjoy what they were hoping to find.

I'm off to PT so I can come home and enjoy a nice ice pack on my hip.

a couple days ago Montana was going to get a little snow. Thought that was odd for this time of year.