At Pike Place Market the other day. Skies are smoky from the wildfires burning in the rest of Washington.

People sit at a counter with a view of the smoky skies and the Great Wheel in Seattle

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My friend Cindy has the most amazing deck, filled with blooming flowers everywhere.

Many colorful flowers blooming on a wooden deck

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Seattle’s hidden gem, the Volunteer Park Conservatory, on a recent late afternoon.

A rainbow of colorful flowers outside the beautiful Volunteer Park Conservatory

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The cream-colored brugmansias (Angels Trumpets) with their long, twisty buds are now in Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory! I adore them, and the scent is truly of the angels.

Pale brugmansia in late afternoon light begin blooming, with croton in the background

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I love summertime pink skies.

Pink clouds swirl above evergreen trees

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Wish I’d thought to take one of these to sprinkle in my garden.

Dried seed heads of a poppy plant in a garden, about knee high or so

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Visiting the old, hilltop neighborhood of Port Townsend, WA recently, this pretty pink hollyhock decorated the garden of the old house we were staying in.

Deep pink single hollyhock flowers in Port Townsend, WA on an overcast day

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At Alki Beach in Seattle recently, dramatic skies.

Rain threatens two sailboats and two ferries on Puget Sound

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From the Sequim Lavender Festival, just a few lavender plants in the late afternoon sunshine.

Blooming lavender plants in Sequim, Washington

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This is one of the best sunsets I ever saw, up on the hill in Port Townsend, WA.

Brilliant bands of color in a silhouette sunset scene

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Not sure if this is dill or fennel, growing outside the window of a house built in the 1890s in Port Townsend, WA.

Herb flowers outside an old window with lace curtains

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Gazania is very showy flower, originally from South Africa, seen at my visit to Swanson’s Nursery recently.

Starry, pointy, yellow and red petals of a gazania flower

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