Thanks to occasional heavy rains, flowers and fungi are having a good summer. Please send your photos to editor@gazettejournal.net.

Oswego tea or bee balm, sent by Betty Ackerson of Hayes.
Cattails and swamp hibiscus by Mary Pope of Mathews.
Red Hot Poker plants return to Ginger Rowe’s garden in Gloucester.

Hibiscus grown by David and Charlotte Reece of Hayes, sent by their neighbor, Julie Shields.
Barbara J. King of Wicomico found a red-shouldered hawk on her deck.
Hibiscus on the deck at the home of Lauren and Allen McBurney of Mathews.

Canna lilies and yucca blooms at the home of Bruce and Shelba Williams.

Martha Thompson Hudgins of Gloucester sends a golf-ball shaped flower and shelf fungus on a dying pine tree.

Rose “Earth Angel” and hydrangea from Yana Hare, Hayes.

Tiger lily sent by Cheryl Battle of Bavon.
A volunteer sunflower at Port Haywood, sent by Linda Dalgety.

Lots of zinnias at Wilson Creek Farm in Gloucester, sent by Herbert Fitzgerald.
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