Yay rain! We've been having daily rain lately and my yard loves it. Not as much as your yard though - your flowers are glorious.

Let the sauna begin.

Laughing! Oh please -- not the sauna ... not too soon anyway! The tropical jungles look so appealing, but you don't feel the 'sauna' when looking at pictures.

It's begun! It was still fairly cool so thought it would be a good time to transplant some things and dig up other things for the fall swap. And then the sun came out. Oh boy -- if saunas are good for you I'm gonna' be soooo healthy ... Ha!

Everything looks so misty, hazy and dewy. Ya reckon it's the rain? Love the rain! Wow, your tree succulents have filled out beautifully. It didn't take them long at all. It looks just like they've always been in place. Gorgeous setting for them. Remind me not to put up any mirrors in my yard, lol.

Absolutely wonderful, I love, love the pix, ESPECIALLY the *mirror* shot

That crinum is to die for, still no sign of mine wanting to bloom

Irene, it was actually raining quite hard when I took the pictures, but the light was bright and since I don't know how to capture rain drops it looks dewy. It's funny to watch our poodle Sport run around when it rains, jumping up into the air with his mouth open trying to catch raindrops. He can see them.

Jolana, thanks. The crinum is the prettiest I've ever seen. It seems to bloom well after it gets going although Kathy said it took years before hers did anything. I'm thinking the variety is Ellen Bosanquet. What do y'all think?

Here is a link that might be useful: Ellen Bosanquet crinum

It does look like that lil lady
So pretty, can't wait for mine to bloom, I am supposed to have two pink ones, lol and I don't remember what the other colors are, they never bloomed in the old place either, lol
The tried and true milk and wine was the only bloomer

**love** all of it! Love all of your statues/garden art!

Lesli, thank you. Many of the pieces of garden art were gifts and much appreciated. All have a story ... :-)

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This is a recent gift from my dear friend Linda M.. She had used it at the edge of a large pond, but one morning she got up to find the pond emptied overnight. Racoons had torn up the lining.

I haven't decided if the bucket with dyckias and dalea greggi (thanks blue girl) represents what happens when your well runs dry, OR splashing water. What do you think?

Wow, I say leave it to interpretation. That is so very creative . If I let you stay as long as you like, eat whatever you want, and have a baby of everything in yard, will you put my new garden together, lol

Hope you some some of the liquid sunshine today roselee. It poured in my part of town.

Thanks Jolana! But 'have a baby in your yard"? ... uh, I don't think so. Oh, a baby OF everything. Well then, I might consider it ... ;-) LOL

Mkull, it did rain at my house! Wasn't that a nice surprise? Haven't replaced the rain gauge after the limb knocked it down, but judging from the water in buckets and stuff probably got almost half an inch. Did you measure the amount you got?

About the same here. I don't know for sure. Our rain gauge got into an altercation with the weed eater and sustained fatal injuries.

I did my walk around, emptying out standing water. A 5 gallon bucket had exactly an inch of water in it. Yay! Yesterday was our watering day as well so I got to skip that again. A friend about 7 miles N of us said they didn't get a drop.