These tall leek blossoms dominate my vegetable garden this time of year. I have no idea why some are white and some are lavender or purple. Bees love them!

Spheres of leek flowers, in the garden

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I have a rose garden in front of my house. A few of the roses didn’t do too well so I replaced them with lavender. I’m very happy with the combination.

Curly willow tree on the left. Roses and lavender edged with sweet alyssum

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At the Des Moines, WA marina recently, the sunset was beautiful.

A couple of small boats on the water of Puget Sound, and the hill in silhouette at sunset

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My brother is on a motorcycle trip and had his friend take this picture of him in front of a fallen redwood in Northern California. What an image!

Man stands in front of the roots of a huge fallen redwood tree

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I’ve been growing potatoes in a different way, and it is looking like my best potatoes ever. My friend told me how to do it and let me collect bags of dried leaves from under her trees to use. I started with a layer of good dirt and fertilizer (about 6″), put the potatoes just under the surface, watered well, and as they grew kept adding dried leaves, letting some green tops stay uncovered, keeping it well watered, adding more leaves as I could. This bin was started at the very end of April, and look at it today! Below are the flowers from the red potatoes.

Landscape cloth stapled to some wooden stakes form the outside of this backyard potato bin.

Lavender potato flowers from red potatoes

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In front of the mosaic fence below, some remarkable and beautiful old vehicles. The top one is from the 30s, maybe?

Old and rusty, but still graceful.

The group of antique rusted cars, and a truck, on Capitol Hill in Seattle

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Here is something you don’t see every day. In the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, a mosaic fence.

One side of a wall of free-form mosaic art, about 6 feet tall, in Seattle, WA.

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That late afternoon light is so generous with shadows. Which image do you prefer? Long shot or close up?

Golden hour light in Des Moines, WA

Red roses cast shadows on a blue fence in the last rays of sun

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Chive plants are great. Months of tasty herbs for the kitchen, and pretty flowers, too!

Mauve -pink flowers of the chive plant, with a baby plum tree in the distance, in my backyard

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Thinking about going camping. This was taken awhile back on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington.

Woodsy waterfall in the summertime.

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