Good-day, kittens & dawgs! Summer is quickly fading and although I’m anxiously looking forward to the colors of autumn and temperature change I’m not ready to say good-bye to this season. I bet you aren’t either. At the end of July, one of our day trips took us to Blowing Rock, North Carolina. I was ecstatic to find the streets lined with gorgeous summer blooms, like these purple coneflowers. Our odd spring left me disappointed in the picture-taking department. The flowers came and went too fast and I often discovered by the weekend the petals withered or eaten. I bet…