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.)
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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