Some of my flowers seen from the opposite balcony.

Hi Raquel... it's been awhile.. everything looks happy and growing.

Hi Lori: it does in this photo - but it is now high summer and H-O-T and humid, and well, the dahlia didn't make it and the gerbera daisy looks peaked...But the geranium and the rose are still doing well! Well, a garden has cycles too...

very true... glad to hear that the old standby's are still doing well...
Did you hear anything more about the electronic loving ants? I subscribed to snopes newsletter...wanted to know if it was just another urban legend circulating...but no luck there either. My dahlias are finally starting up...we just had our first heatwave of the summer...4 days..and that was enough...don't know which is harder to deal with: the long hot summer (you) or the long cold winter (me)...lol.