Well, even though its the middle of June, there are still a few Iris blooming. This one happens to be my favorite, it smells like pink cotton candy. I wish they would bloom all year.

I just love summer. I love it when it gets really hot and the air becomes heavy with scent of all the blooming flowers and freshly mown grass and then there's the rain, there are very few things that can compare to a summer thunderstorm here in the desert.
I truly love living here in the desert it feels so different than any other place I've been, I can't pinpoint exactly what it is, its just different.


The flowers are spectacular this year; I guess its all the rain we've had the last couple of weeks.

This is a variety of Palmer's Penstemon. It has a lovely scent and gets more and more beautiful every year. This particular patch is about three feet across and is in the front garden. It reseeds quite heavily and there are enough seedlings from last year that this patch should be almost double in size when it blooms next spring.