[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Bon in Sunny California! Your garden, as always, is colorful and well maintained, in spite of smoke, wildfires, earthquakes, and political calamity!

(Are the red flowers in the last picture flowering quince??)

[Bon of Babble]

We are STILL getting fallout from the fires. I opened my door yesterday and there were ashes piled up right on the door stop and in the bottom of my mailbox (again!) - we’ve had mild to high winds lately and it’s stirring up the ashes (and other toxic chemicals). I keep an eye on the particulate count - my neighbor’s cardiologist told her if it’s higher than 50 to stay indoors with air purifiers running. Well, mostly it’s been around 60 + so I’ve spent a lot of time indoors.

The last photos, the red flowers in the back are from a crown of thrones, in the foreground (in the pot) is a bougainvillea called Orange King.

Thank you for the kind comments!