walking to work, June 4

You'll recall me saying that I have been noticing red leaves more, this year. I don't know if they are redder, or if it's just that I'm noticing them....





Red. Hmmm. Let's back up a bit and take another look at this. Red. Look in the lower right. Now *that* is some serious red!





No maroon, no burgundy. Red.

Poppy.








Something else I've been noticing this year is that the air often smells distinctly good. Not just "rainy fresh green" good, but "flower perfume" good.

I was lucky enough to visit Hawaii, once, and the air smelled wonderful.

We've been getting hints of that, this year, and this is one reason why.

This locust tree has a branch that is right down at nose level. Mmmmm. Tropical, delicious, reminiscent of Hawaii...........






I walked slowly past, taking a hit off each of the flower clusters........

Mmmmmmm.






Here are a couple of closeups of the "yellow in front of a teal house" yellow that I showed you last week.







Rhododendron.





Clover.





I don't know what this is. It is a shrub.

Yet another arrangement of flower parts.........