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The garden flowers are attracting many things including butterflies, hummingbirds, and bees. They are inspiring my paintings right now.   Soba buckwheat blossoms.

Picking apples before the birds do. Going to make applesauce and dehydrate some apples too.

A lot of flowers in the garden.  Always changing with the seasons.   There are rose of sharon, zinnias, marigolds, morning glory, and many more!

Right now there are a lot of violets, ground ivy, and lily of the valley on the ground in my yard in Elmhurst. I am really enjoying the fleeting moments in the garden with the perennial wildflowers. I also have colorful pansies in pots around the house. And a few carnations and fun things. Love this pink!

Just some photos from around the house.  First, the blood oranges are in!  Have you tried these?  Red as wine inside.  And delicious too! Second, the dried gouache in a flower-shaped palette looks like a work of art to me!  Freshly bloomed. Third, grape hyacinth starting to fade.  Will put in the ground soon by the peonies in the back yard. Fourth and last, some seed packets to go in the Elmhurst house garden.