I Simply Remember These Favorite Things, and then I Can Smile All Day

June is nature’s way of reminding you that you forgot to buy sunscreen.

A Plant:‍ Begonia ‘Canary Wings’

A Garden:  Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI

Streaming Show: Clarkson’s Farm

Book: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie

Place: Walters Gardens

I Simply Remember These Favorite Things, and then I Can Smile All Day

June is nature’s way of reminding you that you forgot to buy sunscreen.

A Plant:‍ Resurrection plant, Naked ladies Lycoris spp

A Garden:  The Morton Arboretum Lisle, Illinois

Streaming Show: Granchester

Book: A Town Like Alice. Nevil Shute. Fiction

Place: Gorges State Park, Sapphire, North Carolina

I Simply Remember These Favorite Things, and then I Can Smile All Day

June is nature’s way of reminding you that you forgot to buy sunscreen.

A Plant:‍ Perennial hibiscus

A Garden:  The State Botanical Garden of Georgia

Streaming Show: The Count of Monte Cristo

Book: The Radium Girls, the dark story of America’s shining women. Kate Moore, Non-fiction

Place: St Mary’s, Isle of Scilly, UK