It's a rainy Sunday here, but my cukes are growing and happy.

No, this is not inside a greenhouse, but the ledge in the kitchen. These are my cukes started in February during our wretched Winter storms and power outages. I just needed some green in the house, so I started them really way too early. They are now making fruit produced by myself as the bee with old paintbrush and patience pollinating the blooms.

No this is not a bed of zinnia's outside my window.

It is more flowers started in February and they are happily growing along. And look at the colour on this first bloom to open. They will get to move outdoors to my new border probably this week, depending on our weather.

My tomatoes are also beginning to really rocket upwards. They are filling with bloom.

They are watching over my pergola project I shared before which is still waiting for it's white stain, but we can't seem to get two days of sun together. As soon as the wood dries and I think, "I can get to staining that now!" The skies open up and more rain.

Honestly, though, I am not complaining. One of my favourite seasons in Spring and it is always far to quick. And often we here on my little bit of coastal New England have very short Springs. We go from Winter to Warm Summer almost over night, but not this year. My reward for the horrid Winter is a prolonged Spring. I love days of rain and grey it's still fine for gardening and the plants love it. And what better weather to sit in one's studio dreaming away imagining new worlds to sketch.

Speaking of sketching I cut my finger two days ago and it has impeded me a bit.

It wasn't a serious cut, but it was on the knuckle of my forefinger so it is awkward and needed bandages to keep it straight. I did manage to sketch yesterday though, and will share more about that sketch tomorrow. But, here it is a bit with my sad bandaged finger.

You can see a little green seed packet peeking out behind my random pages there, as gardening is my carrot on a stick to finish my work in the Spring. This was some cilantro that was my reward if I managed a sketch with my wonky finger I could go plant those in my new little pop up plastic green house in my veg garden, I'll post about that maybe next #sublime Sunday.

Now, back to plants and rainy days:

Yesterday I went with my MIL and SIL to our annual wildflower plant sale at the Thorton Burgess House and Jam Kitchen Here you see the front elevation of the house from their little wildflower garden.

It was a grey rainy day again, but the yellow flowers were like beacons in the grey haze of a rainy Saturday outing.

Here is the side elevation and it's typical of the type of buildings on the Cape: Old colonials or Cape Cod style houses with rooms and additions added over generations covered in graying weathered cedar shingles and an icing of white railings and porticoes.

The little garden had but a few things flowering, as this long Spring has slowed down the growth of flowers, but the lush verdant landscape is lovely. Yet, there were shots of colour, like the blue of forget me not or the pink of Geranium maculatum.

We actually arrived a bit late and I couldn't believe it almost all the tables of plants were empty! I guess everyone showed up in droves at 9 when it opened and cleaned them out. It was probably the threat of rain. I was dissapointed as they always have a great collection of native ferns and I wanted to get them for my fern garden and my little rental cottage dubed "Fern Cottage" as I am obsessed with ferns.

I was still able to get a few things, including a large tub of mystery daylilies (in the green rose pot people dig up their extra plants for this sale and use any old leftover pots they have).

I have so many orange daylilies, but this was a fun find as the lady said, "We haven't a clue what colour they are but the donater wrote on the tag "Not Orange". And as it was the end of the sale I got them for only $2 and daylilies give and give. I'll probably have 5 times this amount in a a couple years.

I was very excited to see this little tag write out however!

English Bluebells! Oh glory. Of course they have already flowered, but I was able to get the last three pots of these for $1 a piece. I love English bluebells and have been fantisizing about wanting to make a carpet of English Bluebells here at Toad Hall. They will naturalize nicely and make me think of my beloved Blighty when I am here in the USA.

As I said, it is a rain sort of #sublimesunday here. The sky is grey the sea is grey but flowers are strating to burst in shrub and trees.

I thought I'd share a quick little video of me taking the long walk to the Summer Studio.

It is currently a work in progress, being a very old boat house here on the property, but we recently had the front re-clad in new siding and some trim began. The large open door that used to slide open to admit two large 30+ foot sailboats has been sealed shut (the boats having been sold) and this will be my Summer studio.

However, we sadly lost our handyman mid project, so it's in a bit of stasis. I will still be taking advantage of it this Summer, but on a cool Spring day like today, it's good for a visit, but I'm happily in my small studio in the house now. You can hear the wind and waves as I walk I believe.

And, as it is part of my Sunday, and really part of every day, why not a video I took this morning of my little clutch of chickens. They don't mind the early morning rain and are happily scratching in their wet chicken yard.

I hope you all have a lovely and #sublimesunday and a great #walkwithme day as well.

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Check out my other posts:

• Dada.nyc drawing, back at it
• Another layer in my Singularity painting: Pandora
• Bears eat the best Pears, they say
• A #sublimesunday and my Garden Project

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