Time for a visit to June: a bouquet of pink peonies from my garden.

Pink peonies with many petals and yellow centers, in a bouquet

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Took this photo of my red chard before the recent freeze. I’m afraid to go out there and see what’s left of it..

Red chard shows off its jewel colors in my garden earlier this week

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I have a couple of thornless boysenberry plants. Their leaves are doing the fall showoff thing.

Boysenberry leaves color up for fall

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The coral bark maple at my driveway has such yellow leaves!

Coral bark Japanese maple tree leaves turns bright yellow in the fall

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Yesterday I went outside to bring in all the plants that needed to come in ahead of the arctic weather we’re having right now, and took a few minutes to enjoy the bright sunshine and the last, last flowers blooming.

Small magenta/red and purple hardy fuchsia flowers still blooming in mid-November.

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From the archives. These yellow alstroemeria flowers, or Peruvian lilies, are wonderful even if they have no scent, and very long lasting in a bouquet. Very easy to grow, too.

Yellow alstroemeria flowers with dark red stripes in a bouquet

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Passing by a Hispanic beauty salon in Burien, I saw these decorated nails in the window. My goodness gracious.

Gems and silver swirls decorate long artificial nails

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We have four pretty goldfish with fancy fins and pearly scales, and they were getting too big for their ten-gallon tank, so we moved them to a 30-gallon aquarium. Here’s a photo of them in the smaller tank, and below that are two videos of them, first in the smaller tank and then right after their move to a larger home.

Four fancy iridescent goldfish swim a last few minutes in their ten-gallon aquarium

Here are two videos of the before and after. Note how they do not swim into the new, larger area just yet after the move.

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More pretty leaves.

Yellow Japanese maple leaves with red edges in autumn rain

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Have I mentioned that it’s been raining for quite a while? Here’s a sky from the other side of the year, in May.

Sunny springtime sky with white puffy clouds

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