Gardening Success - Without The Work

I have abandoned my back yard for the most part. It's too hot right now for me to move and sweat to weed and dig and prune - yes, I'm using this time to pull the pregnancy card. But God gets it - and has decided to give me some returning buds anyway- regardless of the state of my patio plants and overgrown flower beds.

These lilies and trumpet vines were another set of handy models in trying to figure out my camera. I'll keep working on it; it was quite difficult in full sun to capture the colors; and I probably should have tried to use that up-close flower icon on my camera for these - since, well, duh, they were up-close flowers. :)