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As the sun edges downward on the horizon, it's last rays strike the garden flowers beautifully! Native Daylilies   Red Salvia

  Today's Garden Pic is a pretty Native Daylily sunlit by the last rays of the setting sun. In other news, I'm looking into replacing my rain gutters. The first company I called, the owner said " he'd shoot me a text before he came on Wednesday," but when 4 o'clock rolled around, I texted to ask if he was still planning on coming? His answer was to tell me about his daughter being sick and about having to stay home with his son and that he was super busy and said, I quote, "he didn't need me to be there to hold his hand while he looked at the gutters." I was like, "What?" I didn't quite know what to make of that. It seemed a little personal and not very professional. A professional reply would've been, "I've had some expected things come up today---can I reschedule?" I tried to be gracious, telling him I was sorry to hear all that; that I was just trying learn what to expect and that, being retired, I was generally...

I have two pictures for today: one of my Oakland Holly and my backdoor view of my orange daylilies in the glow of sunset. My Oakland Holly Tree: Last spring, this tree shot up this 4 foot center spire and is working on filling in the space. It's hard to get an good angle on it so it shows well, but I cropped the photo from the tip of the spire to the base of the tree.  It's clearly decided it wants to be 9 feet tall. Good news about Oakland Hollies is they naturally keep a pyramid shape, no pruning is required and they aren't tall.   It's interesting watching it work on filling in.  The last rays of sun falling my on my orange daylilies: I like to have an after dinner cup of coffee and watch the birds at the feeder and the sun's last rays play over the lilies and patio containers.