death and life in the afternoon

A bad day for wildlife on the beach. While m and I were playing late evening tag, we dodged around this dead gull only to just miss tripping over this beached fish, which almost looked like a salmon that had laid its eggs and expired.

But there's a lot of life in our garden, and we spent a large part of the weekend weeding and planting. M's mom sent a care package of seedlings from the Nagano forest, and while some of them didn't take the replanting well, others are thriving.

The garden now includes this year's addition of:
thyme
rosemary
Italian parsely
several kinds of mint
cammomile
lavender
basil
oregano
lemon grass
tomatoes--Italian and fruit
cucumbers
zucchini
eggplant
peppers--red, green and orange
shiso
halapeno
shishito
edamame
negi
green onions
myoga
goya
fuki
ruccola
one magnolia tree
one june berry tree
one lemon tree
four blueberry bushes (two kinds)
one raspberry bush
two maples
one olive tree

and more . . .

And then there's the life in this little one, who keeps us in awe, in fact, at just how much there is.