Tall Clover Farm

Not much to say today; I’m heading out the door to secure a hearty hug from the final days of summer. The breeze is light, the sun determined and the garden is offering an encore performance at every turn. I title this shot: Beauty and the Beast.

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Boz and I share a love of lilies; me for its beauty and perfume; Boz for its vertical nature. August is the month when my garden really goes full-on Victorian, a color explosion of old fashioned flowers plucked from a John Singer Sargent canvas. Hollyhocks, phlox, lilies and roses dot my landscape as if applied [...]

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Utah Giant cherry: first of the season, first for the tree While the rest of the country smolders under the debilitating heat of summer, the Pacific Northwest chills out with unseasonably cool days and generous cloud cover. In fact, this year Seattle meteorologists have only recorded two times, for a total of 78 minutes, when [...]

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