Flowers

Lots of plants are in bloom here, especially the clump of day lilies which grows behind the dining room window. These all came originally from our neighbor, who is a breeder of day lilies. I think we (the royal we, which means Gwen) had to transplant them after we bought the house from the front (which was shady and not fully out from under the eaves) to the sunny back. They are thriving. Several different colors. Gwen likes the yellow one the best. Here are a few .. more pictures (and all full size, downloadable, and orderable for prints) are in the June gallery at http://picasaweb.google.com/axtell.mj/June2010#

From June 2010

From June 2010

Here's Jeffrey eating some home grown strawberries...

From June 2010

From June 2010

And here's little Meredith:

From June 2010

Had a fun weekend. Saturday was a lab picnic to say farewell to a visiting scholar from Malaysia who's been visiting in my lab the last 6 weeks. The USA loss to Ghana was disappointing, but we had a good run. My first Ph.D. student was from Ghana, so he's happy, and now I'm rooting for them to go further in the tournament.

In work matters, will be crunch time for a grant deadline on July 12. Hoping to finish up on July 9 (or maybe before?). Always stressful, and tedious.

Hope you're all well..

mike