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It's summer officially....not that we need an official date.  We kinda can feel that it's hot, late June, and in full bloom....i/e: see gardens around your neighborhoods.   Do they look like this?
As you know being enamored of gardens is easy for me.  Scout and I walk and walk and walk and see many hydrangea, mostly blue ones like these: 
In our garden at home we have pink ones.  Sourced at the Farmer's Market, the big one on I-26, they were planted soon after moving in and they keep going.  Despite being covered with snow for two winters in a row. 

  

Lavender grows all over West Asheville.  It seems that it wants to grow, reach out, feel life outside itself.  Lavender makes me feel free, looking at it, laughing at it, smiling once it's gone.

 

Look at that beautifulness!