It hit the 80s yesterday here in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood.
Today they weather guy is calling for a high of 88º F, a record high for this May 26.
Grand opening.
The peony is front of the Little Bitty likes it. A lot. Almost 3D, is this shot taken a few moments ago not? And can’t you almost smell the flowers?
Terrific or terrible Tuesday for you? What’s the latest grand opening you’ve attended? How hot is too hot in your book?
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are beautiful!! my favorite flower, Peonies 🙂
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They are gorgeous, Leyla! I’m glad you lilke them, my dear friend. ❤
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Too hot is any given moment in Central Florida this month, Mark. But your peonies look beautiful. I love the color!
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They are pretty, Rachel. I am sorry you are suffering in the heat, my dear friend.
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Thank you… I could stand to melt a bit. 😉
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Your camera and post about the peonies is ‘spot on,’ Mark! I can almost smell their sweet aroma and see the three dimensional effects and wish I could have a few to put in water. Smiles!
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They don’t last long, Robin. Look here tomorrow morning, in fact. 😦 Also, people have warned that brought inside, ants also come marching in. We have not brought any of the flowers indoors this season.
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Your picture brings back memories of the peony I had in the country Mark. I remember the sweet smell, even this many years later. I just heisted your photo for my files if you don’t mind. It’s gorgeous, and I enjoy looking at pretty pictures like that. I’ll probably print it out when I move to the new apartment and hang it on the wall. We call it scrap-lifting in the scrapbooking circles. And your name will go on the picture when I print and frame it.
Our air was turned on today (Wednesday), and while it isn’t fully cooled off yet, it’s getting there and feeling great. I planted a basil and re-potted my sweet potato vines today as well, so I’m working on my garden too. Guess you do what you can with what you have.
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I’m so glad they turned the air on, sis Angie! Yes, you can scrap-lift any photo you like of mine, any time you want, of course. 🙂
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Thanks little brother. You have more interesting places to go than we do. They’ve turned everything here to concrete. And who wants to look at concrete?
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Beautiful flower and great photo! I was a stressful day. I like fall weather. Not to hot or cold.
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Well good think you’re a Canadian, then, Gibberina. 🙂
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Aha! I guess so
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Just this afternoon, I took pictures of my peony bush so I could show you that we’re not quite blooming yet. I’m emailing you the pic. 🙂 Yours look beautiful! 🙂
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Thank you, Mrs. B!
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Your nice weather headed up this way. It was gorgeous today!
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Fantastic, Austin. We have a big cap of good hanging over us. 🙂
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There is a wonderful breeze making its way through The House on the Hill right now. Should make for a good night’s sleep…
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It’s cooled off nicely here in the Little Bitty, too, Austin. Sleep well, my friend.
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Wow – the high 80s! I like heat, but I like it dry, like Arizona Mark! Love your peonies, such brilliant colours! ❤
Diana xo
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Not dry here, Diana. Humid! How are you, my friend? 😉
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Humidity is a killer Mark. I am well, thanks for asking! 🙂 We’ve been having 23c/74f days and the days are getting longer and longer. Being this far north, on the longest day, it’s light till 10 or 11pm!
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Let there be light, Diana! You still have plenty of time to do stuff when you get home from your new job!
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that should be how cold is too cold for you lol – SIGH I just WISH it was 80 here at the moment 😦 cold – wet – dark early BOO HOO!!!
Oh HI Mark lol
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Oh, hi, Mabel Jane! My pysch-out of making you feel warmer down under with my flower power and hot weather talk didn’t work? Fiddle! I tried, my dear. 😉 How are you and Calvin besides too dark and too cold and too dreary?
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Who’s Calvin 😱 lol between his working late and my essays and exam prep it feels like I have almost forgotten what he looks like – looking forward to out long weekend away in July. Hope you are enjoying the heat 😢
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The heat is good, Mabel Jane. Karen and I are getting set for a getaway to Cape Cod. My dear wife has earned that vacation. You and Calvin will have a nice long weekend away in July when you relearn his face, right? 😉
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Have fun and look out for Jaws he likes warm water 😂
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I stay out of the ocean. No dumb man am I, Mabel Jane.
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Eh. Today was good. Still haven’t read this morning’s paper. That kind of day.
I’m ticked, and jealous, seeing the hot crimson peony in your garden. I only ever saw fluttery pink ones in my neck of the woods. 🙂
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These babies are a molten fuschia, Tess. Which is easier for me to say than spell. 🙂 I love this plant so much. ❤
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GORGEOUS MBM!!!!
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Thank you, MBC. It’s a peony. Remember how it looks, OK? 😉
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Hahahahahahahahahahaha! 🙂 I’ll try…..but you KNOW I will be back some day asking……
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I love peonies! I have a poem entitled Pink Peony, it’s in my Pdf, I might post it on my blog 🙂
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Peony is a powerful word to play with in verse, Vonita. It’s supple yet strong. I thiknk you should share on your blog. 🙂
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Okay I will post this evening 🙂 The original word was carnation, but my aunt only had a photo of a peony and I was using her images to compile my original PDF (never knew of them before then!), and somehow Peony seemed to cut it so much better. Especially with Pink. Pink Peony. Excellent 🙂
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Perfect pink peony illilteration, my friend. I look forward to reading it, Vonita.
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As promised! Just for you 🙂
http://movingtowardsthelight.com/2015/05/27/pink-peony/
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Thank you, dear Vonita, for reading this post and taking inspiration to share the quite lovely poem from your book. I have just returned from a visit to soak in the beauty of your words. I urge everybody to click over and feel the warmth. ❤
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Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for the kind words! ❤
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Your flowers are beauties, Mark. I hope you enjoy the warm weather. I melt above 74 degrees. We might hit 65 degrees F today.
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You stay nice cool there on your northwest sice, Tracy. 🙂
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Beautiful peonies! I wish we still had our flowers, but we moved last summer and my mom hasn’t gotten a chance to plant any new ones. It’s been raining all weekend (which I adore) and will for the rest of the week – we got a break from the downpour today, though.
It gets in the 100s here sometimes…personally anything above 70 is too much; I enjoy the cold.
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I hope you get some new flowers in your life soon, Victoria. They really do raise the spirits! And 100s is too darn hot, I say. I hope you are well as your last summer break as a high schooler comes upon you. 🙂
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my peony tree bloomed and the blossoms are already starting to blow away, my other peonies have yet to debut, they are a bit more shy. beautiful shots, mark and i say, bring on the heat!
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I’m glad your peonies spread out for you, Beth. So nice of them! And, yes, bring on the Ann Arbor heat for my friend. ❤
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Beautiful shot! Love it!! It is rainy here in Pensacola, FL. We got a couple inches already this morning and more on the way. Have a great day Mark! 🙂
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That’s a lot of rain, Colleen. Please keep paddling the canoe! ❤
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More rain coming. That is why we have sandy soil. ;D
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88 is a little warm for me, though I’m usually more concerned with the temperature at night than in the daytime. The central air isn’t as central as it used to be.
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That’s kind of a drag, Scott. At least Mother Nature is supposed to cool it down on her own come nighttime. Big supposed to, though, huh?
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I put a window unit in the boys’ room, so maybe I’ll be rooming with them.
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Bunkhouse days, hey?
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Well, the rain cooled things down so I didn’t have to sleep in the crib.
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Yay! We don’t really want you behind bars, sir. 🙂 In bars?
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Nice. We’re in the 80’s this week, next week 90’s, not looking forward to the 100’s.
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Dora, enjoy the 80s, tolerate the 90s and stay inside for the 100s. Be well, my friend.
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Yep spring has already sprung into summer.
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It has, Kim. I hope you are coping down there, my friend. ❤
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They say it’s going to be humid later. I’m not looking forward to that. Ugh!
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The humidity is like throwing an extra blanket on the bed, Kim. Ugh is right.
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After this past winter, there is no “too” hot.
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Soon it will be too hot, Cate. But not yet. 🙂
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Beautiful photo! After the winter we had, I don’t want to complain, but it has been hot and humid – so much for spring weather! I was at Cedar Point yesterday, and it was uncomfortable waiting in lines…hate that! I love roller coasters, but the lines are something I’m almost getting ready to give up – but then again, my kids won’t let me!
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Your kids will keep you in line, Kelly. Sorry, I couldn’t resist that one. You gave me a pitch down the middle, my friend. 😉 I haven’t been on a roller coaster for years. I loved them, the bigger the better. Darien Lake had a monster that I went on five times one day. 🙂 As for the heat, it will get old fast, I agree.
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Good one, Mark! Yes, they do! At their ages, we only ride the big stuff, hence the lines – still having fun with them, so that’s why I do it 🙂
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That’s a great age, Kelly. I can tell you are enjoying the heck out of most of it. 🙂
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Some days and some experiences are definitely better than others…thanks, Mark
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Now those are some pretty flowers and that is one heck of a nice picture.
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Thank you, Benson. Happy morning photo op for me. 🙂
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Still gorgeous! Love them all open like that, they smell even more pungent when they open.
I can’t tell when the picture was taken. Mid afternoon yesterday?
I like it cool. Summer is not my favorite thing at all, but I do love the garden mid-summer and my arthritis complains less when it’s hot 🙂 I like 65, overcast and damp. Anything above 75 and I’d rather just stay inside, or at least in the shade.
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The photo was taken at 7:45 a.m. today, Joey! It was already 80, so that’s why they were so open, I believe.
I’m glad your athritis likes the warm. But then you don’t. Catch 22, my friend.
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I suppose that’s a welcome relief for you after the winter you had. Are you enjoying the warmer temps. It’s still May Gray cool here but supposed to warm up into the high 80s and 90s by the end of the week. Sunday we’ll be heading to Vegas where it will be about 10 degrees hotter (100!!) Too hot? Uh, I think so.
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I am enjoying it, but it’s a bit too warm for my dear wife Karen. Yes, 100 is too hot for me, too, Marissa. Actually, 90 is too hot for me. Your May Gray will leave to welcome June. Yay!
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We’ll see. It’s supposed to warm up and the end of the week but you never know. We also have June Gloom.
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Oh, no! I forget about Karen telling me about that, Marissa. 😦
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Oh yeah, there’s that too…
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You guys will melt up there in that kind of heat won’t you! I miss my peonies from my old house they were beautiful, my daughter would then like to pick them and bring them in the house and it was a week or raid and various other ant pesticides before we finally got them all out of the house.
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Yes, the peony invites insect jockeys like a Triple Crown race, Gary. It’s the right timing, Skippah! Sorry you are missing yours.
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Love them, yours are beautiful. Are they the ones that the ants love so much ?? Vague memories of bringing them into the house as a kid, and having to lose the livestock. ☺ Van
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Yes, these are the ants’ favorites, Van. Sweet allure. The uncles come shortly after, of course. Ba-da-boom. 😉
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ha…good one ! ☺
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Gorgeous Mark – the peonies that is. 😀 It rained all day here yesterday and i was out grocery shopping. You could smell the earth and growing things. It was wonderful. It is sunny and supposed to be hot today a for a few days – after yesterday’s watering, i expect everything will grow like crazy..
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That likely will happen after a rain day and now cranking up the heat, Paul. Yesterday you could smell it. Today you will be able to hear it! Enjoy nature’s best in Ottawa, my friend. 🙂
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First off the Peony is GORGEOUS! Love them!
Here in AZ…. 80-90 is perfect. Not having the humidity makes it perfect! Now… when it starts climbing over 95 I start to not enjoy the outdoors here.
It’s a terrific Tuesday for me.
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Have a great terrific Tuesday!
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And you have a terrific Tuesday too, my friend. ❤
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A no-humidity day would make me very, very happy, Nancy. Right now I have our split-duct AC running set to 72º F so the weather and humidity is perfect. 😉
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Beautiful!! I am still waiting for mine. Tomorrow we are in for a warmer day after the rain we have had so fingers crossed. And yes I can smell them 🙂
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I hope your coming heat wave will open yours, Autumn, so you can get a good strong whiff! Enjoy your turn, my friend. 🙂 Thanks.
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Beautiful flowers. we have had weather upper 80’s this week enjoying it as tomorrow is rain then back down to high 60’s
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Ride the temperature elevator. We’ve had that here, too, Donna. On Friday night it was 44º F!
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wow
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Beautiful peonies!! ❤
This summer, it even reached 103°F here. Soo hot.
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That is REALLY hot, Glaiza. My, oh, my. I think my peonies would wilt there. 😦
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You beat me!!! My Peonies have not opened yet! Oh wow, Mark, they are beautiful!!!!! (((HUGS))) Amy ❤
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I wonder why ours got such a head start, Amy Rose? Maybe the heat collects on our corner of the Little Bitty there because of the driveway and the house? Well, your beauty will be phenomenal, I know, cuz to the west. ❤
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I have all the Peony braces ready to put up, cuz. My Peonies get SO huge that the stalks cannot support them. So hubby last year devised a system to put a restraining “wall” around each plant in order for those glorious flowers to stand tall. Any day now, they will open, I just know it!!! Perhaps you are warmer where you are. Lake Erie is quite close to where we live. Hmmmm …. I find it odd that your Peonies are open already. Something else for me to ponder upon today … another Mystery …. (smile) Have a beautious day, cuz from the east!!! ❤ ❤ ❤
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Some year I, too, will have to devise a back brace for this peony plant, Amy Rose. You have a great day near Lake ErieW! ❤
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I will take pics when the braces are up to give you an idea what we did, Mark. (smile) Anything to help you out, cuz!!!
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❤ You are so good to me.
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DITTO!
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