This is How the Garden Grows...

How the Garden Grows, 36"x 48" acrylic on canvas. ©2017 Michelle Louis

After an unusually stormy spring and early summer, the downpours continue into July. And gardens grow with spirited abandon. Multicolored foliage and flowers explode into masses of edible goodness and beauty. The weeds, as always, outpace every effort to keep them in check. It's a bountiful and intoxicating time of year. Mercifully, the mosquitoes, a little behind schedule, are just beginning to figure that out.
     "How the Garden Grows" is a recently completed 36"x 48" painting, acrylic on canvas. How are things growing where you live?

Canning raspberry jam.

Cucumbers, lettuces, basil, and calendula, ready to eat.

Daylilies in bloom.

Calendula officinalis, an edible and medicinal flower, is visited by a tiny native pollinator.

Grateful for the neighbor's hives. Honeybee on milkweed.

Squash blossoms. Please stay away, squash borers!