Arugula

We here chez nous are addicted to Arugula as a salad green. So much more interesting than lettuce, plus much more cooperative in the garden. Which is to say, it can be planted repeatedly and doesn't go all mopey in the heat of Summer here in hot and humid Central Virginia. But also, when it goes to seed it has these pretty little flowers! I let it go to seed because then it self-seeds and more comes up! Brilliant! So here's the pretty flower, and also - as a bonus - a bunch of spiderwebby things on what I guess is the place where the seeds are forming.

Meanwhile, having returned from NYC last night - I am only here for this one day before we go off tomorrow for our annual weekend in Syria, Virginia at the Graves Mountain Festival of Music. It used to be a Bluegrass Music Festival - but then they started having some groups that the old time diehard Bluegrass fans got a bit sniffy about, because "that ain't Bluegrass!" so they changed the name of the festival. Clever, eh? Anyway we've been going for something like 17 years now, ever since we accidentally got our hands on a room at the Lodge one year and then were invited to occupy a new cabin the next year. It's one of those deals where the people who *have* the lodgings don't relinquish them till they die, so you daren't skip a year or you'd lose your place! Most people come and camp - in everything from tents to enormous fancy camper bus things - but we are part of lucky few who have an actual house to stay in. With, mind you, our dog! Anyway - I'll be out of touch again, until Sunday. There is wifi at the Lodge, but not at our cottage, so my Blipping might be a little sketchy. Certainly there will be no commenting.

Thanks for all the comments and stars and whatnot while I was in NYC. I'll eventually get caught up, I hope. This weekend is the last of the gadding about for a good while.