Wow! Hot... Still hot and still dry. We have had some rain but not enough. Temperatures over 100 and crippling drought combine to make this summer break records from 100 years ago. September is here and we can hope for cooler nights and the beautiful blazing colors of autumn.

Tiny orange creature on the blooming Sedums.

This is the way life works on earth. Every living thing is a spark of sunlight energy, a crystal bead in the net of life.   Steve Van Matre

This wonderful plant is an Hibiscus acetosella called 'Haight Ashbury' - this plant sports a wide variety or colors just as Haight Ashbury did in the 60s

Also Hibiscus acetosella - amazingly beautiful. So many colors on the same plant - I have not seen it bloom. The leaf color depends on the amount of sun the plant gets.

Wonderful camouflage!

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.  Keats

A thing of beauty is a job forever.  Sterling

Verbena 'Apple Blossom'

Plants, like people, are social or anti-social: the good plant has to be able to live amicably with other plants in the border.   Richardson Wright

Hostas still blooming

Sienna - looking for those amazing yellow caterpillar!

Persian Shield - overwinters well here in Dunwoody - See Sterling for cuttings before frost.
The definition of a Harvest Moon is: the full moon closest to the fall equinox.  The Harvest Moon was thus named because it rises within a half-hour of when the sun sets.  In early days, when farmers had no tractors, it was essential that they work by the light of the moon to bring in the harvest.  This moon is the fullest moon of the year.  When you gaze at it, it looks very large and gives a lot of light throughout the entire night.  No other lunar spectacle is as awesome as the Harvest Moon. Harvest Moon Lore

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