The good, the bad and the ugly

Let's start with the bad (and the ugly)

since I'd rather end with the good.

I came home from vacation to see that not only had I missed the blooming of all of my peonies,

but they had drooped and been rained on and were just totally done being flowers.

I knew that this would be the case since they were just blooming as I left a week ago.

Still, it's just a sad sight.

Look at that lily trying to help out by being all pretty.

 I did search all through the bush, in the rain, to see if there were any pretty flowers left.

I was able to rescue 3 flowers and they are now in a vase in my house.

So, even the bad and the ugly had some good.

The other thing that I came home to was 

a whole bunch of gorgeous, red strawberries on my strawberry plants!

It's hard to see, but there are lots of strawberries hiding in there.

I grabbed my medium sized mixing bowl to go out and pick...

I didn't want to be too optimistic and bring a bigger bowl,

but I should have!

I ended up filling the bowl up twice.

And there are still lots of strawberries on the plants in various stages of ripeness.

Seriously, so so good.