Flowery Interlude

 

This month of August seems to have gone by so quickly.

I've been doing wonderful little escapades with family and now I'm off again 

for a few days.

I have no time to organize my holiday photos, so I'm doing a flowery interlude 

of some of the beautiful flowers I encountered during this month of August.

There will be lots of dahlias, like this deep pink beauty above!

Pink and yellow look great together.

This one is almost fully opened.

This simple bloom with the marvellous centre was the darling of the bees!

Deep pink and luscious

Long, slim petals

Delicate shades of pink

Deep,  velvety red.

A collage to enjoy my favourites

Bees just love Zinnias

Now a selection from my morning and evening walks in my neighbourhood.

A pretty pink Anemone sometimes called Wind Flower.

A luminous Morning Glory and pink Bindweed climbing the fence.

A Red Admiral Butterfly enjoying a Zinnia.

I love the two little blue and black markings at the bottom of the wings

They make me think of eyes with white eyebrows!

A beautiful deep pink rose discovered on my walk yesterday.

Some gorgeous red roses that my son brought me when he visited with his wife.

Some Black-Eyed-Susan, or Rudbeckia

Growing in the grassy patch right near where I live.

Such sunny flowers.

A walk along the lake one day showed these beautiful hanging baskets of geraniums.

I have four strawberry plants growing on my balcony garden.

One day, I counted eighteen strawberries ripe at the same time.

I served them with fresh figs bought at the market and accompanied them

with triple thickness Gruyère cream.

The cream is not whipped, but a teaspoon holds upright in the delicious richness and thickness!

On this tasty note, I wish you happy days until next time!