After over two weeks of rain, we hit a beautiful day. Sunny around 80F.
There were a lot of folks out walking their dogs at the art show. A church group set up a doggy watering booth and had large bowls of water for the dogs, and they gave them free doggy biscuits. Nice! 
This 'Celosia Cristata' came up from last year's seed that had fallen in the ground. This flower is large, about 6" x 8". They are very stunning and easy to grow.
Jedi Stick Action!
Caught a photo before he flew off. The water is lookin' pretty muddy.
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A beautiful yellow striped fish, I don't know the name of.
A manta ray... cool!
Jelly fish. Wow, what planet are these on? Our Earth's WATER WORLD is fascinating!
This little wasp didn't give me too much trouble when I ask him to pose for me on top of this onion flower.
I had a dickens of a time getting this fly to pose for me on the leaf of the 'Carefree Beauty' rose bush. But he finally cooperated.
But bees, on the other hand, absolutely love to pose on 'Echinacea' coneflowers. 
We visited an art show featuring work from kid's art camps at our city's art coop. Isn't it wonderful? So pure and colorful.
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Seems like that our wild rabbits are not running away immediately but kind of hanging to see if you walk towards them. This was a zoom in and cropped in Photoshop.
This photo was earlier this summer, but now it's way too hot (it was 99 yesterday). The chimenea has held up just fine to the repairs with the JB Weld (earlier post).
The garden has not been great this year. I think I have not spent the time to nurture it along with these other pursuits. We had a few of these 'Sugar Baby' watermelons. They are small about the size of a cantaloupe, but very sweet and good!
Decided to go full tilt and get the canopy. We tested the set up out in the yard. EZ up is pretty EZ!
These are some wheel thrown and altered soap dishes, and some fluted bowls. They are in the kiln now. I hope they turn out OK. I tried some new glazes and that's sometimes a gamble. Got my fingers crossed.
then Nemo came swimming along...
then along came a shark...
Would you believe....we went to the aquarium? 
We are getting some tomatoes now. My favorite thing from the vegetable garden. I would show you some photos of the tomato plants, but they look kind of raggedy.
I see quite of few wild bunnies hopping about in our yard. This young one is nibbling on some clover near the vegetable garden. Caught this with a 200mm zoom. I think this may be a baby of the one that was eating the artichoke leaves!
I wanted to try this fluting on the rim for a salsa bowl. We'll see how it turns out.
This is the first time I've tried wine goblets. First the cup was thrown on wheel and then partially dried, next day the stem was wheel thrown on the upside down cup while on the wheel.
We've had two heat waves so far this summer. Kind of hard on the garden. But the corn larvae looks healthy. 
