A Great Day for Flower and Garden Photos

I always look forward to sunny days. Somehow they just make me feel better. Although it is a two edged sword in the summer time when the humidity gets as high as the temperature and it’s intolerable to walk outside. We escape the heat by promenading in the air conditioned union station. It didn’t seem to matter as much when I was growing up in Florida and it rarely got higher than the 80’s in the Midwest. What comes with sunshine are harder to take great photos. So when it is a bit cloudy or drizzly like it was yesterday morning on our walk, most of the photos one takes turn out so much better. And when it is so humid, one also appreciates the clouds as the temperatures rise. As we walked through the usual places - the Smithsonian and US Botanical gardens - the gardens were simply lovely. A very interesting non camera shy unique colored squirrel was running about getting a lot of attention. For anyone who has never lived here it is a gardeners paradise because just about anything grows here. The downside is that if you didn’t have allergies before you move here, chances are you will get them soon after. Oh well... the gardens are still pretty regardless.