I long for cooler weather

This summer heat and humidity really has me dragged out. Right now it's 87 and with the humidity feels like it's 106. I worked in and around my main garden Sunday morning and again this morning and sweat buckets. There is so much more that needs doing, but not in this weather. I can only work outside a couple of hours before I start feeling drained, start tripping over my own feet, and realize it's time to call it quits.

Cooler weather is not expected for us until the end of October, IF we are lucky.

Here are just a few blooms.

An unknown pass-along daylily from a friend.

Prosperity roses.

The next two pictures are of Duchesse de Brabant blooms.

May I learn to appreciate the beauty and gift of life in each passing day.

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"Live in each season as it passes:

breathe the air,

drink the drink,

taste the fruit."

Henry David Thoreau

Zone 10 ~ s.e. FL

Oh the humidity,

Good morning Friends ~ I hope you are having a nice Sunday. I went out early this morning to plant some things, then decided to clean up a bed I had let go and it was filled with succulents. Oh my, I didn't get very far as it was horrible working out there. The sweat was running right off the end of my nose, my clothes were sticking to me, and I said to myself, that's it for now, I can't take any more. It was only 9 a.m. I checked the weather and at that time it was 84, but with the humidity at 79%, it felt like it was 103. After a shower, and cleaning up the kitchen, I went out to take a picture of the area I started working on, and found a few gems while I was out.

Here is the little bed underneath our Norfolk pine.

This was a real surprise, and I saw that I had already missed a bloom opening as there was a closed up one next to this one.

Here we have Vincent Godsiff.

Pink Pet or Caldwell's Pink

Louis Philippe

St. Francis and feathered friend

There is no spot of ground,
however arid, bare or ugly,
that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an
impression of beauty and delight.
Gertrude Jekyll

Zone 10 ~ s.e. FL