Flowers, flowers, and a cat, all great images of summer. Please send your photos to editor@gazettejournal.net.

The rose Koko Loko, coneflowers with the cat Andrey, and phlox, sent by by Yana Hare, Hayes.

Dahlia at Jim and Kathy Harris’s house in Bena.

Linda Dalgety of Port Haywood sends a calla lily blooming in her yard.

Green frog enjoying a daylily, and butterfly with daylilies, at the home of Katherine and Ray Mazzocco.

Purple coneflowers and “VA Tech” daylilys by the front porch of Lynn Holt.

Jemma Washington grew these lilies with her Pop-Pop’s help at their home in Hayes.

Daylilys at Lee’s Neck Farm, sent by James Moller.

Butterfly garden in Ginger Rowe’s yard, Gloucester.

Julie Shields of Hayes photographed her purple shamrock after last week’s rains.

John Hassell of Washington, D.C., formerly of Gloucester, sent a photo of Cleome Hasseleriana.

Barbara Van Over’s red orchid cactus at Dutton has 75 buds.

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