Is This August?

A sparkling, clear, cool day!  Not what the "dog days of August" would imply.  All our hot and miserable and dry weather was in July, this year and last year too.

With the recent rain and cool temps, everything looks wonderful.  Pam's friend Julie came for a tour earlier in the week and it all looked good.

You can't really see it in this picture, but I sit in the rocker on the patio and look through the red salvias to the hazy purple Russian sage, and the cardinal flowers are just beyond, echoing the intense red of the salvias in front.  It all just works, although hard to capture in a picture.

 

I definitely need more cardinal flowers to make more of a stand in Meadow's Edge!

The Ruby Slippers dark wine colored cardinal flower by the patio wall is starting to bloom too.

The Rose of Sharon is blooming and the panicle hydrangeas too.

  

 

Even the last tardy bottlebrush buckeye that is so far behind the others is now in bloom!

It all looks so good, and the lawn has greened back up too.  I have much to do, and some plants to move or change or plant, but I just don't want to tinker with anything right now!