It is a gorgeous bloom. Thanks for the full shot. BTW I just realized you were in Roanoke. I used to visit my Aunt and Uncle in the summer and have lots of wonderful memories. A trip up Mill Mountain was always part of it!
Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.
"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam