Baby's Breath

Baby's Breath

"Gypsophila" 

This lovely bush comes back like magic every summer.  On a sunny day, it looks like a bee-covered cloud.  It grows right through a tight space between the bricks. Native to Eastern Europe, Gypsophila often grows in dry rocky cracks, so that explains that. It somehow found the perfect home here and I can't even remember planting it.

We have the best weather in the country right now-- that's not an exaggeration. For that matter, you'd be hard-pressed to find more pleasant weather anywhere in the world. Great Britain has the highest temperature every recorded, over 100 degrees today. I follow several English blogs and folks are not happy. The Brits are heat wimps, like us. It's so hot in Europe there's a concern poor battered Notre Dam could actually collapse.

Anyway, it almost seems a shame to leave Seattle during the nicest time of year, but we haven't had a whole week of vacation since last September.   It's monsoon season in New Mexico, so that means sunny mornings with a chance of thunderstorms each afternoon.  We're flying non-stop to Albuquerque this weekend.