My friend Sherry has a fabulous garden and cans her own food. I am envious!

Pickled stringbeans, canned carrots and other goodies from the garden, home canned in jars.

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Coneflower, or echinacea, is a beautiful garden perennial and I wish I had some in my garden. This was taken at a local garden tour.

Orange coneflower or echinacea blooms in the July sunshine

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Last year at this time my lilies were in full bloom.

Magenta, ruby and pink lilies on my patio against a blue sky

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I love this kind of hydrangea and they sure reward a close look. Those teensy white centers!

Tiny white flowers in the center of the blue hydrangea petals with some purple veining

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This row of orange-red metal chairs was casting shadows at the Sculpture Park in Seattle. A fine temporary sculpture right here!

Tomato red metal chairs casting shadows at the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle

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Leeks are remarkable plants in the garden. The first photo is the bud enclosed in its casing, with several inches of a green spike on top, looking like an alien hairdo. Below that is the ripe casing falling away, and the buds of the flowers showing themselves. They are at about eye level for me, so a bunch of them make quite an otherworldly show.

Leek flower still in its casing in the garden

Leek flower (about 2″ or 5 cm) with unopened buds, emerging from its papery casing

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These showy, double, orange daylilies are quite vigorous in my garden.

Many shades of red, orange and yellow on this double, frilled daylily

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Dusty kitty is one of those cats who will love you, no matter who you are, kind of like a friendly dog. But she’s hard to get to pose nicely. Here she is on our patio on a warm July afternoon.

Smoke colored cat on a patio, with petunias

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These daylilies are really sort of a dark burgundy, but the photo makes them look more purple. Sorry about that. In any case, the throat and pollen is really yellow!

Bright yellow pollen at the center of a burgundy daylily

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I love lavender (see photo of it in bloom below). Here is some I harvested that is decorating my carport while it dries. I picked the pink ones just today, the others last week.

Pink and lavender lavender (!!) drying in twine-wrapped bunches

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