Filling the Frame

It has been raining all day. We're very happy about it although I wish I had remembered to cover the porch furniture. Too late now though. Spike is not pleased. He is not a lover of rain and won't go outside but doesn't quite understand why we're not taking him for a walk or at least throwing his Kong. We are unable to convince him that we can't make it stop.

David came by this morning and spent three hours installing a grab bar in our shower. The new tile is porcelain and extemeley hard. A trip to the hardware store was made for diamond drill bits. Then he ran into something even harder inside the wall and had to devise some sort of Plan B. It's done now and he's gone off to build the door for the cabinet in the opposite wall.

The echium spears blipped a couple of weeks ago have become waterlogged and are beginning to bend over to the ground. A hummingbird has been visiting it all afternoon, and I liked the abstraction of the picture taken through distortion of the rain on the outside of the bedroom door.