Maddy's first Coke at a soda fountain in the 125 year old Schimpff's Candy Store in downtown Jeffersonville, Indiana (just across the Ohio River from Louisville. This delightful place was a serendipity on a two day trip with Maddy to Louisville. We packed a lot of fun in a short amount of time.

MacBeth is blooming again. This daylily, a gift from Elke to her mother, bloomed earlier in the summer, and is now delivering even more blooms that it did earlier. We have many other daylilies that have more than a season of blooming. It is fun to see them repeat. Feels like summer goes on forever.

This is the "two year chair" that provides a restful spot in the yard of the Hideaway. The "two year chair", an Adirondack design, took me two years to build. Or it took some reminding to get it complete. But now it provides another place to retreat, to be restored, to reflect.

She was playing her guitar where people often relax in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. But there weren't many people there that day. But she didn't seem to mind, She sang her favorite songs, with a little bit of story in between each one. I contributed a tip as well. But she's not going to get rich or famous. I don't think that matters to her. She just sings her songs.

The Cookie Shack at False Bay, Lasqueti Island, British Columbia is always open. Each plastic bin contains a different kind of delicious cookie. There is no clerk, just a money box, trusting in the honor of the customers. I thought it was the first place you stop after you get off the ferry from Vancouver Island, and the last place you stop before you get on the ferry. You can never go wrong with a cookie!

Yesterday wasn't a good day for the hummingbirds in our yard. Most of the summer we have had two or three that have been visiting our trio of feeders. But within the past week, the numbers have escalated with multiple challenges occurring at the feeders or at the trumpet vines. We have even added a fourth feeder as the number of birds has increased. Yesterday morning, the cats, caught one. I was very disappointed with Fred's behavior and told him so. As a result, we moved the feeders further from the deck to at least increase the difficulty of capture. But in the evening, as I was preparing to start the grill for dinner, I noticed two hummingbirds, struggling on the deck. They must have been chasing each other and crashed into the window. And there they were stunned from the collision. Judy gathered both of them up in a dish towel, away from any other predators. They slowly revived, and before they flew off to the trees in the yard, I managed to capture a few images of one of them. 

It's been wet outside. The pool nearly overflows with water from frequent thunderstorms. And the grass is growing so fast, I have to mow the lawn every 5 or 6 days. Water is a precious gift. We all need it the refreshment.

Thirty miles east of Seattle is Snoqualmie Falls. I photographed the falls (270 feet high) with a relatively high shutter speed, 1/400 second. I like to shoot water at a very slow shutter speed which lends a milkiness to the water. But this time, I was fascinated by the cascades of water, and knew that I would need a higher shutter speed to capture the effect of the water. We also stopped for ice cream.