while i've been gone

one of the enormous rhododendrons bloomed this week in the heatwave we are having. it's been in the 80's the last 2 days. work has gone well and last night i slept for 12 hours, i was super tired!

these flowers loom overhead, and you can see from the photos how magnificent they are up close. "There is your family and the people you love. All the rest is just stuff."-a quote from a random blog i read