Rural Life on the Mountain: Back to Flowers

I've been cleaning, painting and thinking about painting and making things with zucchini. I've discovered among other things that the painted woodwork has white latex paint, painted over oil paint (probably in 1976) and probably not primed since it comes off with a good dose of cleaning.. Now I have a dining room with off-white woodwork with celery highlights. The good thing is that where it looked like some of the woodwork was splitting, it looks like it was just the latex paint with cracks in it, not the wood itself. Unfortunately in the upstairs bath, I painted with latex and some of that is peeling already, especially where it had been not painted completely/well before. So my painting "career" has momentarily stopped in favor of getting ready for company on Thursday. The pink bathroom will remain pink for a while.
The flowers in bloom change each month and July is alomst over! So here's a sampling of the pretty July blooms. The sweet Pea tries to take over now, so I need to get out there and pull some of it out along with other weeds taller than I am. Besides these of course, the vegies (more precisely, some of them) are coming in fast and furious. Will be canning more relish today.