Colors of July

Foreword: I follow a blog called "Life Looms Large"...Sue's pictures are always so beautiful!  At first I felt a little lame reading it (because, you see, she was actually my mom's 'blog friend' first and it felt quite lame to copy my mother, as though I couldn't find my own friends). :)  Eventually I got over it and I thoroughly enjoy her blog and her inspiring photographs.  Each month she does a post called "Colors of [whatever the current month is]".  I finally got my act together to participate, so here we are...

Colors of July in northern Georgia

Most of the color is in my garden right now.

Sunflowers

 Zinnias...and a butterfly...and cosmos

 Serrano peppers

 Poblano peppers

 Sweet banana peppers

 Sweet potatoes...this picture doesn't do them justice.  Even though the leaves look chewed, the plants are healthy and the colors, variations of green with deep purple thrown in the mix, are so pleasing.

 I LOVE the spiral shape of the expired clematis

 A stray vinca flower that popped up

 This is a hot month in the South, and a lot of the colors start to fade a bit.  We're likely to have another surge of color when the nights cool off a bit in a month or so, and then our autumn colors will start in October or November.

Thanks for visiting!  Be sure to go here and see the July colors from other places far and away!