Whimsy and departure

Here is a baseball with branches grown around it. It's been there a few years. It is a little mossy, thanks to the damp weather we've been having.

A stone figure peering through the plants.

Then it started to rain--see the drops on my windshield as I'm in my car, ready to leave.

I bought a fern while at Hi Hoe, a deer fern it's called, which I'll plant next to another fern I bought there last year. I wanted to buy some bacopa, but their greenhouse was closed because it's been such a cold spring and it was so cold yesterday as well, that they would not expose the "tender" plants. I think that bacopa can survive already in the sheltered part of my deck, so I drove to a hardware store and bought some.