The winter weather favoured us with a warm day for the June bee… and gardeners and visitors included: Lena, Patrick with Woody, Tony, Ian, Anne Tamblyn and Keira Lockyer from U3A (who are gathering material on DCFG for a chapter in an upcoming community publication), Tia and Jeremy with Jasper and Arden, first-timer Leila, Sarah with tiny Ruby, Mara, Christian, Diana, Meg and Alison.
In the main it was a day of maintenance, some bed preparation and planting, lots of weeding, thinning, removing exhausted plants such as tomatoes (after gathering the green ones), mowing, collecting stakes, compost turning, mixing and adding. While there is always lots of social warming, today's bee seemed exceptionally companionable, with conversations, smiles and laughter aplenty. The morning's pics. . .
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| Patrick, Lena, Tony |
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| Patrick, Lena |
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| Lena, Arden, Patrick, Woody, Anne, Kiera |
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| Arden (far left), Anne, Kiera, Woody, Jasper... and others in the background |
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| Tia, Leila... (welcome to Daylesford!) |
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| Keira (back), Tony, Jeremy (mandolin discussion) |
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| Anne, Patrick |
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| Ruby, Sarah, Lena, Anne, Patrick |
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| Arden, Woody, Jasper |
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| Ruby, Sarah, Tia, Leila |
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| Mara, Tia, Lena, Leila, Anne, Kiera, Tony |
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| Woody inspects the firm green tomatoes |
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| Patrick, Mara, Tony & Tia bending, Christian |
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| Tony, Christian, Leila |
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| Sarah, Woody (in shadow), Ruby, Arden, Mara... in the distance Diana, Jeremy, Alison |
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| Compost-ready! |
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| Jeremy, Patrick (mixing compost and soccer) |
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| Patrick, Jasper, Jeremy |
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| Diana, Jasper, Jeremy, Meg, Alison, Mara, Tony |
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Meg, Alison (happy days!)
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| Best foot forward... boot of the day (Tony) |
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Next bee: Saturday 11 July
