the heart of 'glory'

My morning glories never bloom because I yank all the vines out before the poor things have a chance. The vine is so invasive, wrapping around everything that grows in that little space. Somehow some vines survived on the far side of the porch, in the side yard, not the little garden...So for the first time in the 5 years that we have now lived here...we have morning glories!?!

I spent some time trying to photograph them, shot them with some bees...but nothing really came out. But as I was editing I noticed this little heart stamen.

Little hearts have been coming up all around me lately, they remind me of that TEC Frank went on when he left those little love notes everywhere....Yesterday there was one on Louise's arm, the aluminum foil one on the ground as I was pumping gas, the one in the clouds the day we bought my camera, the one I noticed in the curtains after all these years...

My mom and brother arrive today for a two week long visit, and Jessica her husband and 7 month old baby arrive tomorrow...for a week.

The fourth of July is next weekend...
People dread the fourth because they say summer is half done...
The 'first real day of summer' I am sad, because that's when I feel summer is almost done............
I love those summer days of May and June when it's really just spring, you're not using up any summer.....the days just loom before us......

Now they feel like they are just being eaten up, family visits...fourth of July...Frank's 50th and Meg and Sam's wedding...and Frank's summer course starts...then a weekend TEC retreat....which today I realized will make us miss the New Jersey reunion....ugh...then it's August and yeah Dom will be home!?!???...but then the boys go back to school.............and summer is over....
and then Darla will be gone...