Summer flowers

I wanted to show you the beauty of our summer flowers, particularly that of our red poppies. And if you recall my cherry blossom photos posted this spring, you’ll find a certain photo of ripening cherries posted below quite appetizing.

Events

Our very own cherry blossoms

Sure, the Cherry Blossoms Festival draws big crowds in DC, but the cherry blossoms that really get me going are the ones in our very own garden!

We have a truly wonderful cherry tree that grows next to our house. It makes the juiciest and most delicious cherries ever, and it makes so many of them that we simply can’t eat them all.

So you can understand why we get so excited when it goes into bloom, which incidentally happened this weekend. It looks like another bumper crop of super-cherries this summer! 🙂

Thoughts

Young sunflowers

There are few flowers that can match young sunflowers in splendor, simply because very few flowers get so big and have such vivid yellow hues. The yellows, coupled with the soft greens in the center, make for a splendid combination. It’s no wonder that young sunflowers appear in many a painted still life from centuries past.

Events

DC Cherry Blossoms in 2006

We had fun at the 2006 Cherry Blossom Festival, as you’ll see from the photos. There were more people that year — they grew from year to year, as I pointed out before. Ligia and I took our time walking around and I got some interesting photos as a result. I think when you compare these photos with the ones I got in previous years, like in 2003, you can see a clear difference. I could see it too, and I was happy because of it.