Art from the garden
This year the vegetable garden had a hard time taking off, as it was so parched in May and most of June, but now we have a few things growing there - salad, spinach, zucchini, haricots verts and peas, as well as the many herbs that have been thriving in the hot sun. The greenhouse has chilis, slowly ripening blue grapes and some very poorly cucumbers - I'm not sure why they're doing so badly as we started out with a good crop at the beginning, but now they're just turning yellow a withering away before they get much past flowering. Instead the greenhouse is being taken over by my sage, which I neglected to move out this year. The rosemary is also thriving in there, and we have a reasonably bug-free basil, but none of the prolific leaf parsley that has been clogging up the place every other year. Nature is so fickle.
My peas in the little Moleskine Cahier, done in India ink Pitt pens - the sepia and sanguine lines are fine-tipped pens, and the blue and green are brush-pens. The shadow in the background is the drawing on the previous page - you can see it here over on Flickr.