Tall ships and our garden.

Now I know you are thinking, tall ships and gardens don't go together but here at St. Helena Light Station they do.  A couple of days ago I snapped this picture through out spotting scope.  This was one of two tall ships that passed us by going up bound towards Green Bay.  The first one was under non-sail power and was not as pretty.  

One thing we are allowed to understand living here on St. Helena is the incredible amount of lake traffic/commerce that goes through the Straits.  Most folks that stay a few days remark about this traffic and this year many have become involved in identifying the freighters and recording them.  When you are fixed at a spot in the Straits this is something you can appreciate.

Another is the changing of the wild flowers.  Now not all the flowers in this picture are wild but if you look through the lilies you can see purple.  The purple is wild flowers, like wild fox gloves, I think.

But to the garden I mentioned earlier.  We have been working to have a garden out here that would allow us fresh veggies for salads.  It has been slow as not only was spring late up in these parts but we did not get out to the Island until the middle of June.

This is an over view of our garden that got a good bath last night from a late night rain.  You can see the kayaks in the background as our garden sits right above the shore next to the boat house.

This is the lettuce section with the snow peas climbing the fence to the right.  Notice the Iris that planted itself right along with the lettuce.  Last night for the first time we had a salad that was completely made up of our various kinds of lettuce.

This is the tomato section and you can see that we still have to import the tomatoes for our salads.  I don't think we will ever have red tomatoes for our salads as we are not staying that long.  But maybe if they ripen after we leave and fall to the ground they will seed themselves for next year.  I have gotten all kinds of ideas on how to be more successful next year.  If you have any advice fore northern tomato growing, please pass it on.

The little herbs to the right are three plants of six we were given before we left town and are providing Basal and Parsley for our cooking.

Today is a transfer day so our friendly keepers Carol and Chuck will be packing up and heading back into town.  We are expecting four new keepers that will spend parts or all of the next five days with us.

The keepers at St. Helena Light Station.