Last night's rain...

...got everything revitalized. Farmers at the farmer's market in Gore Bay seemed a happy lot, although our farmer/baker (who specializes in date bars) fears she night have lost hundreds of cabbages in her back acres due to the May drought.

Morning fog, which made me wish I was out sailing. Also, morning boat work, with Sue up on deck going at the deck and cabin top, and me down in the bilge aligning and gluing in the base of the new depth transponder.

Purvis whitefish for dinner tonight (farmer's market); and a freezer pretty full from our stop at Burt Farm on the way home.

In the afternoon: while Sue was caulking the battens in the almost finished upstairs bedroom, I planted out the circle garden—10 tomatoes (a variety from two of the farmers at the market) along with peas, beans, onions, garlic, beets, kale, and cucumbers. Not enough space for potatoes, and I've given up on carrots. And then down in the driveway—the perennial herb garden, of course, but also basil and cilantro.

Also, today, post rain—mosquitoes, a dragon fly, and several tree frogs, just tuning up. The ash trees have leafed out enough to appear to have leaves; and all around Island lilacs are coming into bloom.