Counting down til the end of summer...

Last Monday was a work-from-home day, and it turned out to be a really nice one! The sun was out, but it wasn't too hot... I worked at the desktop machine all morning, but come lunch time I grabbed the laptop and headed out to the deck with, what else - a BLT!


While we've all griped about losing our tomato plants to the blight this year, I've got some that are holding on as long as they can, and they're even producing some really nice tasting tomatoes. (Don't get me wrong - none of this year's tomatoes have tasted PERFECT....but I'll take what I can get!)


The dahlias are going full force right now as well.... These three colors actually look pretty good together.


That orange one just looks like an explosion in the garden - you can almost feel the heat coming off of it!

And who knew pink could look so good with these other colors? It helps that this particular pink dahlia has some warmer shades in it - there's hints of yellowy orange near the base of each of the petals...