The name of this rose is Honor. It is in my front yard rose garden, and blooms even though partially shaded.

Sun and shadow on a blossom of the white Honor rose

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My hoya plant loves the heat this year, and has TWO flowers. Isn’t this one pretty?

Pale pink, white and red waxy flowers of the hoya carnosa plant

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Dark red cherries of some kind on my backyard 5-graft tree, right before I picked them. I lost the tags, so don’t know the exact name. But they are delicious! I really love this image and I am calling it my weekly Saturday Top Shot.

Shiny dark cherries hang from the tree

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In my garden tonight, an orange rose.

Glowing orange rose in the late afternoon sunshine

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The lavender is looking particularly beautiful this warm year.

Magical lavender in the sunlight

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Of course lots of watering needed with this heatwave in Seattle (locals get crazy if it’s over 80 or so) and the water droplets on the dark daylilies only add to the beauty.

Dark purple or burgundy day lilies with yellow center

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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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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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Yummy latte coffee at Normandy Perk, my fave coffee shop in Normandy Park, WA. So pretty!

Artistic leafy foam pattern in latte at Normandy Perk

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Maple Valley Days last weekend at Lake Wilderness Park, display of wonderful old vehicles.

Antique red fire truck in Lake Wilderness Park, Maple Valley, WA

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