This summer’s weather has bounced all over the place – we’ve had cool days, days that were pushing 110°, days where it felt like it had never in all of history rained, days when it rained as though it would never stop. There doesn’t feel like there’s a middle anywhere in the mix.

When it’s hot, my brain thinks colors have faded so it was pretty insistent about the final look of this image since the garden tour landed on a very hot day.

West Texas Master Gardeners – garden tour
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 6.20.2026