Our holiday weekend was supposed to be a bit of a washout, but instead it was a lovely mix of summerlike weathers – cool and comfortable Saturday night for Henry V at Shakespeare in the Park with friends (said a sleepy F just before intermission gave her a second wind, “wake me up when the French princesses are back.”), warm and dry for an outdoor dinner party on Sunday night, and hot and steamy on the holiday (with a side of quick afternoon thunderstorms) to make it seem like summer might really, truly be here. Sunday midday was rainy and pleasant – one of my favorite times to visit the garden. We got tickets to see the current Lego exhibit in the Climatron and Temperate Garden, and even tried to recreate the tropical flowers out of Legos. No easy feat.
…and the flowers for our Lego models:
