Summer 2014, we hardly knew ye

I went back to look at the posting I wrote about the end of summer last year, and I am going to sound like a broken record: Wasn’t it just a couple of days ago we were at the Biltmore for the unveiling of the International Rose Trials winners?

Miracle on the Hudson took top honors at beautiful Biltmore

Then wasn’t it just yesterday we headed out on a 10-day road trip in early June that took us to Williamsburg, Virginia Beach, Cambridge, MD, Longwood Gardens and DC? 

The wild onions of Yorktown

 

Another amazing Virginia Beach sunset

American Pillar (a hybrid wichurana)  at Longwood

 

Mama Robin in DC

 

I always feel like somebody's watching me

So what happened to the rest of the summer and how come next weekend ushers in Labor Day?

Well, I don’t have any answers. Once again summer seems to have evaporated. 

My roses were spectacular (if I do say so myself)

But at least I have some wonderful photographs to remind me of the time that seemed to go by as a blur.

Enjoy my summer snapshots and join me in savoring the final days before we feel a nip in the air.

Because I am certainly not ready for mums, pumpkins and black cats.

Gorgeous wildflowers everywhere

Bees were wild about the 86-bloom spray of Lyda rose

Our hydrangeas died to the ground but these Annabelles survived

The view from the mountaintop garden was just as spectacular

Golf was good

Goodbye summer :(