In honor of the fantastical Burning Man event held in the Nevada desert at this time every year and just ended, here’s a photo I took when I was there in ’07. The statues in the lower left are several stories high. Enormous and mind-boggling doesn’t begin to describe the entire event.

Gigantic flames ignite after the man burns in ’07, with enormous metal statues emoting nearby

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Picked these yesterday. Yum!

Yellow cherry tomatoes and some big ones, just picked

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There’s a lovely Japanese garden at Point Defiance Park in Tacoma, WA. In the pond is a brilliantly red (miniature) pagoda.

Scenic red pagoda in the Japanese garden in Pt. Defiance Park in Tacoma, Washington

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It’s great what the right light can do for a macro flower photo. Such an ordinary flower, but so amazing in good light.

White cosmos with yellow center bloom in August in my Seattle garden

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In Point Defiance Rose Garden in Tacoma, WA, I was lucky enough to see a beautiful and excited fifteen-year old girl having her Quinceañera photos taken.

A 15-year-old girl poses for pictures in the park for her upcoming Quinceañera

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Everyone loves sunflowers. These big yellow beauties in my garden turn their faces to the sun so nicely.

Rear view of a yellow sunflower against a blue sky

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A beautiful flower, extremely adaptable (almost invasive!) but so very graceful. Good in bouquets, this crocosmia (also called Montbretia) is also found in the taller, all red version “Lucifer.”

Red and orange crocosmia flowers against a dark background

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In a friend and neighbor’s garden, a late orange daylily, all lit up by the summer sunshine.

Single-petaled, graceful orange daylily showing the shadow of its stamens in the sunlight

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Yellow cherry tomatoes are such stars of the food garden. Their little stem caps even look like stars.

Sweet golden orange-yellow cherry tomatoes, fresh picked from the yard

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This display of shade-happy plants is a skillful combination of colors and textures, don’t you think? Some unknown floral designer did a fine job.

Fuchsia, coleus and tiny petunias (Calibrachoa) decorate an outdoor planter

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