All around Anchorage, the lamp posts were covered with these flower baskets, in the colors of the Alaskan state flag.

I found my first Violettos at a hardware store. For two years they had an amazing seed rack with different varieties of veggies not usually grown around here and some from Italy. Then they stopped. That's when I ordered a catalog online and from then on purchased from there. You know that they turned bright green when cooked right? Aren't Rattlesnake beans also mottled purple? I'm curious now. I wonder if all this time I thought I had planted yellow wax beans that crossed with the purple, when I bought Rattlesnakes beans instead.

Interesting bug. Edited to add, I finally identified this guy, and it is considered to be a beneficial addition to your garden. Yep, another one of the good guys to have around. The Ambush Bug.

The day lilies are done: But the resurrection lilies are doing their best to shine: