My father and I took a summer drive out to Blandy Experimental Farm, the State Arboretum of Virginia. It was a hot and humid day so we didn’t plan any degree of hiking but we did park and walk around the grounds a bit. Planted along the inside border of the main building were some beautiful balloon flowers. Interestingly, there were both blue and white flowers. We’d only ever seen them in blue so the white were a surprise.

I think of balloon flowers as one of my mother’s flowers. She and my father planted some of the blue variety just outside their front entrance and I’d occasionally try photographing them. It’s been almost a year since my mother passed away, just days after her birthday. I wish she could have seen these balloon flowers at the arboretum. I’m sure she would have enjoyed them.

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