Lilacs - one of my favorite flowers. I'm intrigued by the orange belted bumblebees in many of your pictures. I have never seen them here on the East Coast.
I've been training a couple of young dogs for a friend. Last night they were being noisy so I went out to calm them down - leaving the sliding door to the deck open. Came in and went back to bed. Half an hour later the Princess enters the bedroom and says, "Scaredy is in the house, and she is...