
Hollyhocks have got to be one of my favorite flowers -- great in an old-fashioned (English) country garden. HERE is some info on these gorgeous flowers!

I have grown them in the past but not recently. Now I want to be sure to plant some this fall and have them again next year! Even though they don't smell they are big and showy and last a long while...

So I am pooped from going to museums and wandering around London and this evening after I talked to Andy on Skype, I happened to look out my hotel window as the rain started again and I saw this little guy sitting up on his concrete pillar:

Look closely -- see him in the middle of the photo?

What a cool thing to have looking down on the courtyard below! Wonder why he is there?