white hot

Yesterday, it felt like a someone had taken a still-wet towel from a hot clothes dryer and laid it on the atmosphere.....the newspaper forecast said it would seem like August; it did. Just before noon I took some pictures of the White Garden which sits behind Sarah P. Duke Garden's Doris Duke Center
Left-my silhouette... I really wished that I could've climbed down into the ferny glen that sits nearby. It looked ten degrees cooler down there.

Pictured below: 
Echinacea 'white swan' 
Rose of Sharon