Smelling like grape soda, these irises in a friend’s garden were a spring delight. The dark purple color of the lower petals is the finest velvet.

Colorful iris flowers in a spring garden

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We got maybe a tenth of an inch of rain, more than the entire summer here in Seattle! But a big rain is coming in a couple of days, thank goodness, maybe two inches over a few days. The garden is so thirsty. If you grow roses, pick them and enjoy a bouquet if a big rain is coming. No sense in letting them get ruined and go to waste.

Water droplets on the petals of a half-open Peace rose in my garden

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One of my reasons for gardening is the perfect patterns.

Sunlight on string bean leaves

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Pretty contrast in textures of two ferns. The one on the left is a sprengeri and the one on the right is maybe a kind of bird’s nest fern?

Sprengeri fern on left, perhaps asplenium nidus (birds nest) fern on the right? At the Volunteer Park Conservatory in Seattle

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Rain is back, but at least it’s light out later.

Raindrops on nodding pansy petals in a blue planter

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Green, unripe grapes on the vine. These will be purple when they are ripe. Perhaps the red stems are a hint of that?

Unripe grapes in the August sunshine

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The glorious wax beans, in my garden yesterday; dinner tonight.

Was beans (yellow string beans) in the garden

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Pink, or maybe mauve, this hydrangea close-up shows the pale, delicate flower centers. Blooming at Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory right now.

Purply-pink hydrangea flowers, very close up

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Fall foliage is like a flower. So beautiful, and over so soon.

Heart-shaped leaf in the autumn rain

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When the sun comes out, even the simplest leaves are beautiful in their autumn glory.

Blueberry bush with red autumn leaves, and green fern in the background

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