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Now that the camera battery is nicely recharged, some flower pixs.

This year I decided that this damn rhodendron was going to bloom, if only so that I could see what color the flowers were before I ripped the stupid, half-dead thing out of the ground because it always looks so sad. Thanks to the wonders of modern fertilizers, we have blooms. And, now, I've grown attached to the stupid thing. Wonder what it'll do next year if I don't tinker with it?

And here it is with the irises:

And because I think they're pretty, in the backyard I've planted these daisy-like annuals. Not shown are the orange with purple center and the purple with white center varieties because I couldn't get good pixs of them.

So far, these are the season's few gardening successes. We shall not speak of the basil. Or the wildflower mix. Or the rose.