This is one of my favorite paintings -- Royal Gardens .  this is oil on canvas.  I enjoyed painting it.   You can buy a print at Pixels. Com -- https://pixels.com/featured/royal-gardens-cheryl-godden.html

We still have smoke here in south western Washington State !!  Its not fun to deal with -- It makes my eyes tear up and makes me sneeze a lot.  I have to constantly clean my air conditioner filter.  But enough complaining at least it is not in the 100s degrees anymore it has reduced to 80s, and for that I am grateful.

As I type this President Trump is talking at at a rally in Montana -- hopefully their Big Sky is clear and not full of smoke.  He is quite a speaker !!  I enjoy listening to him, he is not like a boring regular politician that will put you to sleep listening.

My neighbor grows apples and Grapes and roses and all manner of things in his garden.  I stopped to talk to him today when I was taking Candy for a walk.  And he told me that one of the grapes are great for raisins and that he dries them to make these lovely raisins and then promptly went into the house to get me a bag of lovely freshly dried raisins.  I have never had fresh home grown raisins.  I could not believe the taste!!  So this looks like the end of summer -- hope you had a good one.  We are coming up to Rosh Hashana that starts sundown on September 9 and ends on September 11.