This was very definitely a working holiday! Friday, I finished the patio.

Saturday, my big project was digging up the lilies out front I don’t think I took a picture because I was hot, sweaty, and hating ditch lilies. I needed compost, though, and couldn’t finish it.

Planted my little fuchsias before starting the lilies. Last try with these.

Grapevine beetle. Huge.

Mexican sunflower blooming this year instead of just making leaves.

Crocosmia

Autumn Colors rudbeckia

Apparently miffed that I planted no sunflowers, and the racuns clean up the spilt seed, the birds planted one for themselves in the Honeysuckle Horseshoe.

Sunday, I swept and weeded the patio while P had HK to go get chairs and compost.

New chairs!

They work!

Larval cicada. Found while digging lilies.

Lilies mostly gone. Still had to sift for roots.

Female stag beetle. Lucanus elaphus, if I spelt it right.

Sunday, I also did a TON of laundry. I was busy that day!

Bloom from Cranberry Crush, I believe.

Larval mud dauber, found amongst the 5000 paper wasp and mud dauber nests under the old outdoor blind I took down when I cleaned the windows. (After I swept and weeded the patio, the windows looked dirty.)

I also washed the patio furniture and the coir mats. Two little American Snout butterflies loved the wet mats.
For the record, wet coir smells like wet dog.

Lots of dragonflies this year. Hardly any last year, but it’s been wet this year. This Widow Skimmer was waiting for prey on the liatris; dragons think that makes a good perch!

I’ll make a new post for yesterday; this is too long.