Sweet, alert, and curious

Here’s Charlie looking sweet, alert, and curious about a brand new year.

Outside, miraculously, we still have the occasional summer flower blithely blooming in the front garden, on the back deck, and kitchen deck. I won’t tell them that what they’re doing is a miracle if you don’t—let’s let them assume it’s perfectly normal to do the impossible, beautiful thing

In order: Magenta salvia, yellow snapdragon, fuchsia, salmon-rose snapdragon, unknown red flower, yellow snapdragon, Hot Lips salvia, still hot…