Wednesday, July 1/2020 🇨🇦

J is training the passionflower vine to cover the enclosed garden sky openings. The vine co-operates, its tiny light green tendril fingers grasping any surface rougher than window glass. And next to the window J has given it a rope to cling to as it heads to the opposite wall - its progress almost fast enough to watch the movement. The overhead canopy in the making is more difficult as the vine needs a little help in spanning the large openings without its own weight bringing it down in between the crosspieces. It’s unreachable, because the building is about twenty-five feet high, but J can just manage to prod it into place by means of standing on a chair and prodding it with a pole, the difficulty being that the eager vine attempts to cling to the pole rather than the crosspiece. By the end of the summer there may be a complete roof of shady vine.