Look at how things have grown!

I am always amazed when things that I have planted actually grow to be mature plants.  My green thumb can sometimes have some darker overtones to it.  This is the May-June photo of part of the upper right terrace:

And this is yesterday's photo:

The red plant in the center is a new color of Rudbeckia, much nicer (to me) than the orange-yellow. And the chartreuse dangling plant is Creeping Jenny.  It is not called "creeping" for no reason— it has the growth habit of a small, simpering kudzu vine.

But taken together, it's a sort of magic, isn't it?

And in the fountain, there is a little visitor:

He looks quite happy here, doesn't he?