Nautical Sea of Flowers

I like how this one came out looking like copper-work...

They are living up to the nickname we gave them as children.
"Army worms" (or Gypsy Moth Caterpillars) have destroyed most of the tree leaves the past few weeks. Shade trees are tough to find these days. Only those lucky to have been treated with insecticide have recognizable leaf shapes.

I used "Seven" powder on the tree trunk out front, but my room is still very hot today. I've been harvesting a bumper crop of strawberries out back, n can't keep up with them during my workweek. Alot are being tossed due to plentiful slugs. 

wish I'd figured out to head them off earlier. I remember reading about beer-pool traps, but have yet to sacrifice a beer... n my pest books are buried in the book piles here someplace... Guess it's another thing I need more time to look up online again. One hour per week is never enough internet time. I hate getting cut off. 

Work is gearing up for huge 4th of July vacation orders. There are so many new work folks that seasoned ones get befuddled as our routines get interjected by those not understanding our system of keeping order n progress ongoing without causing extra clean-up work.

I have been over-stressed, n as always questioning if I can continue the intense pace. While the rest of the world is having bbqs, having Independence Day vacation, n watching fireworks, I'll be working for OT bucks.

It always seems I'm the only one not on a long week-end. When you live in a tourist zone area, hay must be made as we work like horses while the crowds are here.

Onward to July...

I spot
 a cat in a corner,
green butterflies,
n turtles -

anything else?

A yard I walk past sometimes.