From the June 1 folder, peonies growing in my garden:

A swirl of peony petals and some spherical buds, in pink

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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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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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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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From a couple of weeks ago, the last garden flowers in a while.

Dahlias, cosmos and roses in a late summer bouquet

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I took this photo because of the pretty center that looks a bit like a baby bird beak, and only realized when I reviewed the photo in my computer that there was a baby slug taking a drink!

Baby slug sips from the watery center of a bromeliad plant

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