front balcony, surviving the hot summer - so far!

I noticed the first zinnia in bloom when I took this - it is in the lower 3rd of the photo, under the empty silver flower pots.   the heat was less intense today, but the humidity has been cranking up, which left me really tired out and headachy, very slow day.  (filled with fantasies of living on an island of gardens and hills in a temperate sea)