Our red table-grape vine has been in the ground two or three years now. This year, with the warm weather, the vine has earned its keep. Side note: These grapes appear to be Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2015, Marsala.

Most of the seedless grapes picked today. So sweet!

Delicious red seedless grapes from my backyard vine

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Hydrangeas are beautiful for such a long season.

Purple and blue tones in hydrangea petals in early fall on a sunny afternoon

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From a trip to Flamingo Gardens in Florida earlier this year.

Deep orange flamingos feed while standing in water, at Flamingo Gardens in Florida

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Guess I’m just in a macro mood lately. From an afternoon garden party on one of the finest days Seattle can offer.

Condensation on a cold rose wine, on a warm day in the garden

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A friend’s garden is loaded with grapes. These green ones are not quite ripe, but still so pretty.

Bunches of green grapes hanging on the vine, soaking up the sun

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Such a simple but complex flower. I really love this image and I am calling it my Best Post of the Week.

Single petalled Japanese anemone with yellow center

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A friend grows dahlias. Wow!

Exciting yellow and orange dahlia blooms in the garden

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Our friends with the beautiful garden (see a different view of the same scene in the post below) have a pool, shiny like glass in the warm, still air the other evening.

Sunset over Puget Sound and a reflecting pool

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Friends have a very beautiful garden.

Perennial border in late summer in Seattle, WA

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A flower from my yard, a cosmos.

Cosmos blossom with magenta single petals and a bright yellow center

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