Butterfly weed

One of my favorite flowers in the side yard is the butterfly weed, one of the only things beside the Sweet William that remains of the "garden in a can" that I strew about the place shortly after I moved here almost a quarter century ago (Good God). I can just see the elves & faeries dancing in the ring.

We were blessed with a sea breeze today, which knocked back the temps from the mid-90s to the mid-80s by the time I got back from Somerville and Cambridge where it was much hotter, though they seem to have cooled off now, too. Feels like temp is still 90F with the dewpoint of 74F. 99F forecast for tomorrow. Fingers crosses mother nature takes pity on us again.

The Composers Conference starts Monday. Temps forecast for the beginning of the week in the 80s. Fingers crossed (again) that we can hold onto that the entire next two weeks!