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As annoying as it was when the neighbors chopped down their giant Norway maple, leaving 8" holes in my yard and a (now deceased) colony of refugee carpenter ants in my house, the extra sun in the herb garden is making the flowers very happy. Especially the pyrethrum daisies:

They really are this amazing bright scarlet color. I love them.

This one wasn't quite the crop I was hoping for, but it was windy out, so I was lucky to get anything close to what I wanted:

I didn't even notice the tiny ant at lower right until I downloaded the photos! You can see him better in the large view.

And finally, a cat photo, because Mr. P was so asleep this afternoon he didn't notice when I got up from where he was leaning against me, much less when I zoomed in to take this shot. One of the only advantages of him having gone deaf in his old age is that now I can zoom in without frightening him off with the noise of the lens moving.

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I have about 8 square feet of patio, which is under someone's balcony, behind a tree, on the wrong side of the building. I get like an hour of sun a day. I don't have many options when it comes to plants. My property extends to the end of the patio stones, so I have no earth to plant in. I have a couple of large plastic pots that I have planted some shade-friendly annuals in. The herbs were bought yesterday, but I haven't transplanted them into pots yet. I braved the smoky apocalypse to get potting soil and some bigger pots, and it turns out the hardware store up the way closes at 4:30 on Sundays (WTF?), and I got there just as the guy was locking up. If things are better in the morning, I may go then.