Rain....

Will it ever stop? We had a record rainfall in April - 5.72 inches. And it's still raining. Granted, it's off and on, most days, but everything is saturated. 

I felt crappy from the antibiotics today - only 4 more days. So I laid low and puttered around with botanical garden stuff and watched the rain from my office window. I got out for a short jaunt around the garden just a bit ago (it's now 5:30 pm) and it's amazing how many blossoms are beginning to unfurl. The main blip, California Poppy - Eschscholzia californica - was looking particularly well-behaved this afternoon. And the extra is yet another poppy: Celandine Poppy or Stylophorum diphyllum. I got the seeds from a friend's garden a couple of years ago and they've created quite a patch already. I don't mind them though - they seem easy to pull up and rather delicate. I may be swearing at them in a couple of years, but for now I'm finding them quite lovely. In yellow only...hence the "celandine" since they look like the plants of the very same name.