Got those cosmos and bachelor button seeds out there...late, perhaps, any other year...but probably right on schedule for this one. 

Here's a nice blossom shot of the apple tree that borders the back garden to the East. It's in an area currently overrun with grapevines. Some have been trained along the low fence that runs there, but I'll need to address them in some more substantial way sometime soon. The apple tree seems a popular playground for the recently arrived orioles. Must be the sweet flowers that draws them in.