My own little world.

I stood on my nearly complete deck tonight under the stars with the tiki torches and the solar lights glowing softly.  The big orange light next door didn't seem so ominous.  I was watering the plants in my herb garden and the flowers behind the retaining walls I build this spring.  The plants have been suffering some from the extreme heat.  My clay earth is baked hard. Seems sad to think that two weeks ago, we were complaining about so much rain.  All things in their time. 
There was a sweetness to my world tonight.  Yesterday evening, my granddaughter came over to swim with her little sister, bringing along her adorable bitty little dog.  It was a good time that occasioned many pictures and laughs.  We sat down to a movie when we came inside and the 6 year old was asleep before it was half done.
Today, she and I did some necessary gallivanting and then spent the afternoon playing in the pool.  When her parents came by to get her, her mom, who wasn't going to swim, got in with her for a bit after being soaked with water blown from a noodle.  It's good to watch my family enjoy my world now and then.
So far, my garden has yielded lettuce, carrots, leeks and raspberries.  But the pimento is showing signs of redding as is one of the tomatos and the jalapenos and serranos are about to need picking.  The cucumbers are setting on fast as are the bell peppers.  The squash continues to bloom though it's bright flowers have not yet produced fruit.
Flowers abound and will take their turn astounding me with their beauty.  Right now, the calla-lilies and white easter lilies are doing their show.  The mandevilla is getting ready to bloom and my large white and deep red roses are quite lovely.  The red and white petunia that Olivia picked out and planted this spring is covered with blooms as is the purslane and portulaca.  The rose tree I got as a birthday gift is getting over its transplant and putting on new blooms.  The Thai basil is covered with purple blooms and the snapdragons and four o'clocks have joined the lilies and the water larkspur in adding color and interest.  My small gardenia is covered with breathtaking blossoms and the clematis has not yet given up.  Waiting in the wings are the crepe and the hibiscus.
While it's true that many things in my world are in a state of incompletion, the beauty about me and the echoes of laughter and joy reduce the effect of the 'needs done'.  From my deck with it's sparking pool water surrounded by multicolored rope lights, I can see the glow of the light house and gazebo on the hill, illuminated by solar spots.  It's a sweet and comfortable sight in the dim cooling night.  The replacement lights on the posts shine brightly and are echoed by soft lights at the top of the trail.  The fireflies sparkle on and off in the treetops to the hum of cicadas, crickets and frogs.
So ends a lovely set of days in my lovely little world.