Sunflowers and Sad Situation

Our partial sunny skies of  this morning have turned gray this afternoon. I am hoping to grill salmon tonight. The forecast is for rain tomorrow morning so maybe it will hold off tonight.

Instead of yellow sun, we have yellow sunflowers. Yes, they opened earlier today.

You can see the eastern plant has reached its height limit unless it curls up under the soffit. 

I see about a dozen portulaca plants that have reached a few inches high in the front of my patio plot. The Asiatic lilies are finished blooming so it would be nice to have a few colorful blooms but it remains to be seen if the moss roses will survive. That part of the plot floods often, and thunder storms are projected for the rest of the week.

A disaster has occurred to the couple that lives next door. She had a hysterectomy about 2 weeks ago. We all sign consent forms that list the risks of surgery, but you never expect to be the one who experiences the bad things. A police car and two ambulances pulled up in front of their house Monday night. I didn't see her put in an ambulance, but he backed the car out of the garage and followed it, the ambulance lights flashing but no siren. The official news we have received thru the prayer request is that she has a blood clot in her lung and that her heart has stopped multiple times in a hospital in Fort Wayne. The unofficial news is that she is unresponsive and the family has been told to gather.

My husband's brother in December also had clots after surgery, one going to the brain to cause a stroke, and a few days later one to the lung that killed him. We know these people are in God's hands, but it doesn't keep us from being sad when they and their loved ones suffer.

We received news late this afternoon that my sweet neighbor has died.