Pink Rose of Sharon

Pink Rose of Sharon (Originally uploaded by randubnick)

Here is a photo that I took several weeks ago (August 21) during a summer walk here in Beverly, Massachusetts. (This is the photo just as it came out of the camera, apart from some gentle cropping.) There were pink rose of Sharon shrubs growing in my yard back in Lawrence, Kansas, and they always brings back happy memories for me. The rose of Sharon is an optimistic flower, blooming just when you think it is too dry, too hot, or too late in the summer for anything to blossom.