Seattle’s gray weather can start to get to me. Here’s a glimpse of summertime, some blue hydrangeas.

Lacy blue hydrangeas blooming in summertime

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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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Here’s a shot from the other side of the year. Raindrops look good on summer flowers!

Old-fashioned Rose Campion with gray-green foliage, bedecked with raindrops

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It’s still raining, so I’m glad I cut my roses.

Different colors of garden roses on a gray background

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The weather in Seattle is supposed to get seriously rainy, after some very fine fall weather. The only thing to do is go out and cut all the open roses for bouquets, because they’ll only get destroyed. Bonus image below of the bouquets!

Cut the open roses in my garden ahead of the rain coming

And here are the bouquets they made, on my kitchen counter.

Garden roses smell so heavenly. These bouquets will go throughout the house.

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Just a few short weeks ago, on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington.

Leaves throw sharp shadows against an old tree trunk

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At the local garden club district meeting recently, garden flowers (horticulture) were on display.

Simple and dramatic, this late-summer Japanese anemone is easy to grow in shade

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Possibly the last couple of beautiful days of the season, in Volunteer Park in Seattle.

A huge old chestnut tree shelters a relaxing couple in Volunteer Park on a lovely afternoon

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Last year when we went camping, there was a burn ban due to drought and fire conditions. This year, on the rainy Olympic Peninsula, fires in campsites were allowed. I had so missed it.

Tongues of orange and yellow flames leap from campfire logs

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The shady, ferny creeks of the Pacific Northwest are magical.

Mossy branches overhang gentle creek meandering its stony bed

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