Another Great Day

We've had a record-breaking run of warm/hot days here in the Seattle area. Yesterday my wife and I enjoyed the late morning at Kubota Garden, lunch at the Stone Cottage Café, and an afternoon stroll around Seward Park on Lake Washington.

Awesome!

Great pictures John. Looks and sounds like you two had a good day.

Right now I would like to be with you in that wonderland.

It is going down to -9C in Toronto tonight.

Sorry. That should be 9C. It is still too cold for the tail end of summer.
Here is my favourite poem as penance for my goof.
It is so accurate in every detail. Especially this year, the smoke from forest fires.

The End of Summer

by Edna St. Vincent Millay
When poppies in the garden bleed,
And coreopsis goes to seed,
And pansies, blossoming past their prime,
Grow small and smaller all the time,
When on the mown field, shrunk and dry,
Brown dock and purple thistle lie,
And smoke from forest fires at noon
Can make the sun appear the moon,
When apple seeds, all white before,
Begin to darken in the core,
I know that summer, scarcely here,
Is gone until another year.

Right now I would like to be with you in that wonderland.

It is going down to -9C in Toronto tonight.

Wow, I had no idea it was that cold already there. But at least we don't get hurricanes there or here.