Good Saturday morning Thad, Gary, Frankie, and Paul!
Thad, those are some wonderful pics of flowers, many of which I've grown, or I'm at least familiar with them. I had four o'clocks growing outside my apartment when I lived in Tampa. Periwinkles grow wild down here, and they often volunteer in my yard, though I don't think I currently have any. We had a spectacular display of zinnias when I was a child one year. And that last pic looks like a trumpet creeper vine. There's a native variety that does well down here, one of the few things that is also native from up north that also grows here (my ex's grandmother had one). That looks like the one in the picture might be a hybrid or Chinese variety that are also listed in a garden book I have.
Gary, I'm glad your heat is starting to let up, but I guess it's relative. 108 is still way too hot. We'll see how the Gators fare against LSU. One thing about this game that I've noticed over the years is that it often doesn't go the way you'd expect. Though during last week's game I noticed something that has been a problem with the Gators over the last several years. They had several opportunities to take control of the game, but they killed themselves with penalties. I hope your Holy Men do well.
Frankie, I hope all is well with you.
Paul, I see that you got down to the beach. I hope you enjoyed a good swim.
I went to help out at the food pantry this week, but the guy that runs it really got on my nerves, with a bunch of needling remarks and questions. I can see throwing out food that is beyond its expiration date, but he was throwing out perfectly good food, including items that I bought for the pantry in recent weeks. And now he's throwing out all items in glass containers because supposedly one fell and broke. So we have 50 pasta sauce jars we're not giving out, when we were doing it before. I mean, let's go ahead and give away what we already have, and if that's really a problem, then announce that we're not taking items in glass.
Weatherwise, it continues to be rainy and stormy, with more deluges just about every day and often during the night. It's very humid, but at least it's keeping the temps below 90 most days. My carambola/starfruit tree is almost done with the current crop, but it should bloom and bear another round for later in the fall and winter. Other than that, everything else seems to pretty much be done with their summer blooming or fruit bearing, and the fall and winter stuff haven't started doing their thing yet. I'll have to go around the yard and take some more pics of things to post.
Hi John
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No flooding here, but west of here was a lot. No loss of power.