I was looking for something red to post and found this image from a county fair this summer. Totally straight out of the camera and just for you:

A red horse blanket, under a beautiful saddle and on a beautiful horse

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Here’s a peek into the other side of the year. These purple lupines were blooming in my backyard in May.

Brilliant spring sunshine lights up purple lupines and some red rhododendrons in the background

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This bouquet of yellow roses, some with magenta-pink edges, were a gift for my daughter on her birthday last year. Here they are again, in all their perfection.

Yellow roses with reddish edges in a bouquet, with soft shadows

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The flower vendors at Seattle’s Pike Place Market really know how to put flowers together. You will find plant combos unlike anyplace else. And so cheap!

Ornamental cabbage, kale, strawflowers and dahlias in brown paper at Pike Place Market in Seattle

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Hunting for another photo, I found these perfectly pink peonies, with their soft shadows, languishing in a folder. Here’s to the bliss of summer flowers.

Frilly pink peonies from my summer garden

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When I was in the Seattle Asian Art Museum recently, I saw this detail of antique Chinese embroidery of ocean waves that I thought you might enjoy.

Detail of silk embroidery on antique Chinese robe

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Here is the view from my home office window, yesterday morning.

Some autumn leaves still left on the trees, on a foggy morning

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Browsing through my archives, I found this photo I took of a bird. I think it’s a parrot!

Beautiful little yellow and red seed-eating bird perches outdoors on a friend’s finger

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What with all the wind we had, the leaf season is leaving. This beloved poem comes to mind.

Spring & Fall: to a young child

Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves, like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! as the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you will weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sorrow’s springs are the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It is the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.

© Gerard Manley Hopkins. All rights reserved.

Here is another leaf scene beauty.

Jewel colors of autumn leaves not yet fallen

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We had a windstorm yesterday, so these maple leaves from a few days ago have probably blown off the old tree in my neighbor’s yard. A photo captures their incandescent color for us anyway.

Autumn-hued maple leaves in candy colors

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