These are foxgloves that I planted just this spring. I was not expecting them to bloom this year (my other cluster of foxgloves which bloomed earlier were from previous years.) 

These photos are long overdue...Can anyone provide me the name of this flower?

These pansies were those that I planted last spring and bloomed last July...

Small deep-red flowers that looked like tiny roses...

This plant is like hosta (or is it hosta?), the flowers of which grow in clusters

and this is a close up of those clusters of flowers on a tall stem (as tall as me)

The next photos are the different lilies I have near my vegetable garden.



 

One thing I love about my new surroundings is that it is full of life, albeit not of human, but of the other species that long have been missing in the cities of Metro Manila, coupled with the cool breeze of clean air, not to mention the different colors in my gardens...

I captured in my camera this butterfly as it sucked the nectar of the coneflower...

A bumblebee doing the same thing with this unknown-to-me flower...

A grass spider I found amongst the wild raspberries...

and I don't know what this caterpillar-like thing held in place by a single thread of silk(?) on an onion leaf. I have never seen these much in the Philippines during my adult life. 

Here's a zoomed-in photo of a squirrel in the public park near the ocean when we went to the Boothbay Harbor. He was getting ready to sneak in to the garbage and get some chips. 

I recently dug out potatoes and carrots (though they were not quite ready yet) for use in my seafood chowder (leftover lobsters and clams from our Lobster Dinner affair. 

Peaches from Mom and Dad. We ate them as is. Loved them! I reserved the small one plus one large to be used for muffins. It tasted good, too!