The Earth Laughs in Flowers

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Or so says Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The people who owned this house before us were not gardeners but this spring and summer, I've begun transforming the yard.  Hopefully these pictures will cheer us through the long winter.

Potato Vine - I just noticed that the new leaves are edged in purple.

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Black-eyed Susan with friend. I don't know what the bug is - I hate to kill it just in the unlikely event that it's a "good" bug. Anybody know what it is?
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Purple Petunia - I was trying to focus on the pistil/stamen - whatever those parts are inside - but with the camera on automatic, it didn't quite work.
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Paniculata Hydrangea - they smell heavenly and are covered with bees all day long.
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