A garden portal to another world.

Shall we enter?

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A recent beautiful and sunny late-summer Seattle day. Coffee, sunshine, and hanging fuchsia flower baskets! What’s not to like?

Old-world feel to this lovely Seattle street scene. Window arches on both sides of the street!

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From the garden of a friend in Kent, Washington, with its beautiful color harmony of pinks and purples.

Garden archway in the Pacific Northwest, with pink astilbe on the right

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My friend Cindy is quite a gardener. Here is her front entryway.

Hanging baskets and pots of flowers adorn the front of this Bonney Lake, WA home.

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Rainbows are so exciting to see. They appear, and then they are gone, but leave you feeling happy for a long time.

November rainbow

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One of my top fave places in New York City, the Frick Collection, and part of its magnificent courtyard.

Columns, skylight and serenity in the courtyard of New York’s Frick Collection

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Aren’t these unusual hollyhocks pretty? Of course, the gardeners at the Volunteer Park Conservatory in Seattle know what they are doing.

Pink and red hollyhocks at dusk in the Conservatory, under the whitewashed glass

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South Florida’s Vizcaya Museum and Gardens sure has some pretty scenes. If only I could tag this as My Garden!

Arch with wrought iron gate at Vizcaya in Florida

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Highline Botanical Garden at SeaTac, WA, just gets prettier.

Latticework adorns a weathered wooden arch at the Highline Garden, with view of rusted iron rose arches

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In a friend and neighbor’s garden, a late orange daylily, all lit up by the summer sunshine.

Single-petaled, graceful orange daylily showing the shadow of its stamens in the sunlight

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