Tomorrow is the summer solstice. I watered my garden this evening and when I came back in to read I was starting to get annoyed with the jays who were making a racket. There seemed to be some mewling kittens, too. I jumped up and went down to the garden which annoyed the jays but sent them packing and I searched for the kittens but without success.

However, there is a new resident in the garden and we hung out peacefully together in the light of the nearly full moon and the diminishing twilight. Il riccio or the hedgehog. She (?) seems to have a hiding place behind the irises under the pergola of uva fragola - and perhaps there are babies in there with her. She certainly wasn't alarmed by my presence as she ambled toward her den. A welcome guest!

posted by Joanna @ 6/21/2005 02:06:00 AM