Tucked in for the night

We're expecting the first frost tonight, forecast for 31 degrees which means it could be cooler here. We put out the remay to protect the broccoli, beets, lettuce and peppers.  There are still at least 2 dozen big peppers out there and we hate picking them early when they could have kept on going, so we pulled the blanket over the whole big row.

This bed is looking so lush- I just want to bite into everything, parsley, nasturtiums, turnips, chard, spinach, dill and green onions all such a yummy "eat me" green.  Most of this should be alright with the cold- accept the nasturtiums- which could be laid flat by morning and finished for the season.

A sleeping bee, hoping to stay warm under the cover of this zinnia tonight.

Sleeping Bee

I've been seeing a lot of bees on other peoples blogs lately.  This sleeping bee, is it drunk from the scent of the ginger lily? Cold from the the chilly October night before?  I could have reached in there and petted him if I'd liked.  Seeing them brings to mind the song Sleepin' Bee from the musical House of Flowers.

When a bee lies sleepin'

in the palm of your hand

your bewitched

and deep in love's

long looked after land....

Hard to imagine that Truman Capote wrote a musical, but in fact he did and Dianne Carol and Pearl Bailey performed it on Broadway- that would have been one heck of a show!  My father had the album and we enjoyed listening to it together many moons ago.