Diane was luminous in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden:
The roses were a riot of color - although the sun was too harsh for my camera to capture the scene properly:
One of the first lotus blossoms of the season:
A large flower (I was going to describe its hue as lavender or lilac, or even a light violet ... but that seems strangely misdescriptive here - aren't there any shades of pale purple NOT named after flowers?):
Today Sarah was kind enough to host a francophile get-together, and we watched My Best Friend in the original French ... without subtitles. The more often we paused the movie, the better I understood. It just takes time for me to process the words.
There's a connection of sorts between the sun-soaked BBG photos and the francophile fest, if a sadly contrasting one, because Sarah's once-beautiful garden is being drowned and destroyed by pests that apparently thrive in super-saturated soil. Her husband came back from the garden store with a clear ID of the culprits: spider mites, aphids and caterpillars. (He's rigged up a tent-like tarp to protect the plants from the continuing deluges, and is escalating the chemical warfare on the pests while trying not to poison the herb garden.)
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The big purple balls are awesome Alliums, in the onion family. They are so fun and showy! Looks like a great day in the BBG--I'll have to get up to see it sometime.
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