Day 15.142: Tea in the garden

After five days spent almost entirely in the basement trying to keep my germs away from everyone else, it felt like an event when Exile #2 suggested I come out the back to drink my tea this evening. The plants in our garden around the patio are doing great. The shrubs have some strikingly variegated new foliage, the succulents (those that survived the winter anyway) are doing great and we have some perfect flowers on the lily of the valley.