A great way to spend a summer's day...

is to take a stroll through a beautiful garden. Such as the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. One of my favorite places on earth.

I hadn't been to the New York Botanical Garden this year and wanted to see the roses in the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden before they all wilted. And I made it just in time! Here are some of my favorites. (I apologize for not knowing or noting their names.)

Aren't they lovely?

I also strolled through the Ladies' Border, where I saw some gorgeous blue, purple, and white irises...

And I gazed upon the water lilies at the Enid Haupt Conservatory...

Ah... bliss!