The heat and drought continue. It's taken a toll on some of the plants we've been working to establish. But, most of them are getting settled in!

We had a little tiny bit of rain and that seemed to be enough to magically transform much of our bare space into "goathead city." One of our young gardeners looked at the bountiful crop of sticker weeks with some dismay yesterday and asked, "Where did they all come from?"

The fun stuff is that we started making identification markers for our "animal plants." We have access to a large pile of broken concrete so are re-purposing pieces as markers. As a young gardener remarked, they won't blow away and hail won't hurt them...and if they DID blow away we'd have bigger worries than a garden!!

 The summer is quickly coming to a close and we still have some fun, creative stuff we'd like to get done. There are tires that didn't get painted, we want to finish identifying plants in our animal section and it would be great to get the pavers for our path in place.                                                                                       It's been a year of slow progress and hard work. But, of course, any good relationship takes hard work through the tough times. Our young gardeners know that and have said it's been worth it, and they said they can see the potential for good things to come. What more can you ask? What a great group to work with!                                                                                                                 Sybil and Kim from DOVES, since this is all new to you, many thanks to you, too, for staying with what must look like a crazy project this year!