Another view of the fabulous indoor pool at Longwood Gardens outside of Philadelphia, PA.

Flower balls hang over a ferny reflecting pool in a glass conservatory

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Another showy magenta flower from May of this year.

Deep magenta clematis flower, with its exciting yellow center

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Hello, dear blog readers. Various technical difficulties including changing web hosts are creating a break in my usual happy blogging. But never fear, not forever. Another week or so and we’ll be back. Here’s a pretty picture of my favorite place, Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory, with this year’s version of its lovely fall display on a dark day.

Mums and coleus and maidenhair ferns at the magnificent Volunteer Park Conservatory

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Saw this remarkable house in Edmonds, WA. Guess an artist lives there!

Entire outer wall of home in Edmonds, WA is covered in multi-colored fabric art.

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I managed to give the vegetable beds some organic August fertilizer and watered in well. The string beans are doing a whole new crop. If we get a warm September there will be lots and lots more!

Purple and green string beans, wax beans, and tomatoes, just picked

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At a spectacular private garden in Shorewood, south of Seattle. The garden’s owner thought it needed so much work. Gardeners!

Purple sage and tall pink sedums in this brilliant flower border in late August

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I live south of Seattle, just a few minutes from a cove on Puget Sound. There is smoke from nearby wildfires, and the weather people promised us a colorful sunset. Delivered!

Smoke from Washington State fires help create a beautiful sunset

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A delicate flower in a friend’s pretty garden. Later note: Geranium “Ann Folkard.”

Some kind of geranium, perhaps, blooming in August

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I’ve been using a better grade of fertilizer in my little backyard vegetable garden and it has paid off beautifully. Never had such beautiful string beans, ever! The purple ones cook up green, the wax beans stay yellow, and both are easier to find and pick. All taste wonderful!

Tomatoes, zucchini and three colors of string beans from the backyard garden

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Staying in Sequim for the Lavender Festival, this was in the yard where we stayed. Can’t you just smell the fragrance?

Lavender flowers in Sequim, WA backyard

Also our host baked us a cherry pie with cherries from her tree!

Home baked cherry pie, best I ever tasted.

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