Hi to you too. You certainly have your share of beautiful flowers up there to. I oogled lots of them when I did a cruise from New England to Quebec last September. I will sometimes play zone switch and grow some Northern annuals here during the winter. I often said someday when I hit the lottery, I will build a storage building with a couple of large walk in freezers to store some large potted lilacs. I grew up in Chicago and those and the dahlias and peonies always bring back fond memories. Our elementary school even had a weekly flower show where kids could bring in flowers from their gardens and the principle and a couple of teachers would judge them and give out ribbons. I remember some really huge dinner plate dahlias there.
@ 'way up here'. weeds you be 'way down there' to me 
