A lot has died back in the yard (goodbye lemon cucumbers) but some things are actually going pretty strong. This red and white dahlia blossom with almost cup-like petals is still doing its perky, cheerful thing in my garden.

Red and white dahlia in the October garden

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Not too many flowers blooming around the neighborhood right now, so I’m posting an image for our Southern hemisphere friends: cherry blossoms from the opposite season, from a tree close to my old house in Des Moines, WA.

Cherry blossoms on a tree in the Pacific Northwest in April

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Yesterday’s sunset seen from my backyard:

Sunset with colors in the sky, Pacific Northwest style

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These Japanese anemones are blooming right now outside our window. This is from through the window glass.

Lavender Japanese anemones, from the back

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At the Renton (WA) Fall Harvest Festival on Saturday, I was surprised to see these bouquets of dahlias that included intensely fragrant lilies. The ones in my garden have long been finished. I bought some and the entire house is filled with their scent.

Brilliant dahlias and fragrant Oriental lilies in an early October bouquet

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These pretty gerbera daisy flowers were in a florist shop, begging me to take them home. Such sweet pinkness!

Pink gerbera daisies at a Seattle florist shop

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Someone brought these cutie cupcakes to a great party on Saturday. And it looks like someone sampled the pretty red icing, too!

Adorable mini cupcakes, with sprinkles

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I am not ready to let summer go. Here is one of my peonies from June of this year.

Pink peony blossom

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This ferry-in-the-sunset photo is very similar to one I posted about three years ago, but I think it deserves a re-run. I had just gotten my new camera and hadn’t mastered all the settings (not that I’ve done so by now) and it needed a tad of adjustment, but hardly any. Those are the Olympic Mountains in the distance.

Ferryboat plies the Puget Sound waters off Seattle

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Bowman Bay at Deception Pass in Washington is an incredibly scenic place where you can camp right near the water. We were there last year at this time, and this photo is a companion to the one I posted from that trip here. I love this post and am calling it my Best Post of the Week.

Dusk at Bowman Bay, Washington

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