The day started off looking like this as a rainy system went over giving us a small shower. It wasn't much and the heat just kept building. I worked out in the backyard for a while. I mowed and emptied grass clipping onto my tomatoes. It was good that I had to keep stopping but it did make it seem like more work. I did have my hat on today and that did help but I really got warm fast. I took a break at ten and had a diet cola and cooled off with my wife in the house and then I went out and finished mowing. I used all of my grass clippings, which I don't normally collect, to cover the raised bed with the tomatoes.
Full sun makes the photos being a little bit harder to take but it can be done. The full sun does makes some of the flowers glow.
The heat is hard on the flowers. These lilies though go into shade at mid morning as the sun passes over the house.
Our temps are causing the coneflowers to look pretty straggly. I think they are blooming too soon in the season but I guess I don't remember when they normally do bloom.
I walked out barefoot on the deck to take the clouds photo and when I looked down I thought that I had to take a shot of this planter. I brought the planter up from under the deck so it went into shock when it got full heat of the sun on it. I have trimmed it back a lot as a lot of the geranium leaves just died and now the flowers are starting to regroup. I didn't really plan to put that color of petunia in the planter with that red of the hardy geranium. I guess we see how it looks as the fill out. I have hosta in there also from last year's planting.
I am blogging late again today but life keeps being busy. We did get to eat out at Chinese tonight and that was fun. Stopped for a handful of groceries and my wife picked up a prescription. It was too hot to be out there but we did do fine. We are still at 85 degrees F. at ten o'clock at night. Tomorrow will start out host. Thanks for stopping by for a visit.
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