Can you believe it’s August already? Although it has been a very hot, humid and uncomfortable one for many of us, I hate to think of it as beginning a slide toward autumn. Nevertheless, there are still lots of flowers to enjoy and easily for the next couple of months.

The tea roses have been blooming like crazy, their faint rosy perfume quite detectable in the warm air …

… while the matador roses have been doing the same.

These are very ordinary, commonplace roses that will grow almost anywhere …

… but I do love seeing them lining footpaths and sidewalks. So pretty.

Happy Friday and happy August.