G'morning Grannie,
Lovely flowers, we call that lower one 'snowballs' here, is that the name where you are? Grows on a bush that can get twelve feet high...
We have a dry heat, maybe 10 percent humidity. Evaporative coolers (swamp coolers) are everywhere, even on RVs.
It is down around 66 for the nighttime temperatures, (40s in the mountains) and it doesn't heat up until 10 or so in the day. My wife goes out about six in the morning to pull weeds and transplant flowers.
Mirror lake is the name of that particular one, and it had quite a few visitors Saturday.
"Lovely flowers, we call that lower one 'snowballs' here, is that the name where you are? Grows on a bush that can get twelve feet high... "
Snowball or Viburnaum
Since gran isn't around today.... The flower in gran's photo is a Hydrangea. They look very similar to the Snowball. Depending on the acidity of the soil, hydrangeas are either blue, pink or chartreuse and grow on bushes. Viburnum or Snowball trees do, indeed, grow almost as wide as they do tall. I've seen photos of pink Snowball trees but down around this part of the country I've only seen the white ones. My grandmother had several in her garden and they were just as showy as her hydrangeas and peonies.