This is a lovely photo...would make a wonderful note card. You always have great plant photos! Thanks for posting.

I'm happy that we also had rain yesterday and it really cooled down. So the hosta have a break from tropical temperatures and they seem to enjoy it. Could go on for some days...not only because I love raindrop pictures,too :-) Dawn's Early Light is one of the hosta which hold the drops nicely :-)

Thank you all for your comments. We are getting some real rain now, hope it will be enough. Has been raining close to an hour now, but only hard for the 1st few minutes. More is predicted the next couple of days. I will take all I can get at this time of the year. I love Christmas in Oz, just wish it were a little taller. It is rather spindly too, although that is not so noticeable when it is fairly short. I am so glad I planted those Vanishing Mist prolifs too, Brad! They are now 5 fans, and have done quite well this summer. Can't believe the whole clump disappeared. Tall Blonde is a magnificent plant, just have to see it in person. I have, or had, Concrete Blonde. I moved it, can't find the tag and it has not bloomed. It might not have survived the winter after being moved. But this is much larger and seems to be a better bloomer than Concrete blonde every was for me. Nancy, I think it was Kay who told me Heavenly Angel Ice does not like to be moved. I had to move it a few years ago though, and have not moved it since. It really does look like it is going to do good this year, but it just started blooming. It is probably about the whitest I have, but it has never been much more than out of the foliage here til this year.

@enduring How it works is that EPA requires a water company to test, report and mitigate down to a certain level, a list of pollutants. (Primary Drinking water regulations) It's not every possible thing that could be in the water, but it's a pretty good check list. Of course there will be people who may think the list isn't comprehensive enough. There's also a list of non-health related regulations that don't have to be met (secondary regulations) and a list of contaminants that are on a "watch list" orContaminate Candidate List or CCL. I'm oversimplifying - but you get the idea. It's the process of how contaminates become regulated in drinking water. A good quality carbon filter will remove taste, odor, chlorine, PFAS and many other things like many VOC's and pharmaceuticals. They are the right answer for someone who has municipal water but wants it to taste and smell better - and wants general assurance that they cleaning up much of the other stuff. if your water provider uses chloramine instead of chlorine for disinfectant, you need a carbon filter that is catalytic carbon to remove that. Yours uses chlorine though. There are specific things that a carbon filter will will not remove - lead, nitrates and some others - but unless you have an issue with lead pipes in your home, those aren't going to be an issue for most people with municipal water. However, If you have an older home, particularly if you have children, have your water tested for lead. This all assumes that your municipal water company is adhering to EPA regulations. There are situations where they don't - specifically where a utility is severely distressed. We saw it in Detroit, in some minority counties in Mississippi and I've seen in some tiny rural utilities that couldn't get nitrates under the limit. So, yes a Brita pitcher will do most of what you want it to do. So will any one of a million under-sink carbon filters. These don't need to be expensive or complicated. You do have to change the filters regularly. I use a standard filter holder and then I can install any one of dozens of carbon filters from various suppliers. But you can also use a specific brand if you wish. As I often say - this is commodity technology, there's no "special sauce" here.