A bright blue sky. A warm breeze. And flowers.

Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.

—Albert Einstein

Summer at last! Although I expect no sympathy from my friends and colleagues in the pacific northwest, it has been an unseasonably wet, gray spring in New England. There are reasons I don't live up there, and four days of sunshine in some months is one of them.

Anyway, I'm happy to report that the pots on the deck have started to recover.

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Lantana


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Verbena


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Geranium?


As for the roses,

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Roses


well, these are a small, climbing variety and I have no desire to fight about whose are fatter. I'll take elegance over flash any day.

This little thistle relative is doing nicely too.

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Centaurea


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