This year, I put out almost the same patriotic decorations for Independence Day as for Memorial Day.  Bright diffuse light when I decorated for Memorial Day was good for photography, but I did not have time to cull and crop before posting for that day.  When I decorated for Independence Day, the heat and humidity were bad (and correctly predicted to soon be worse).  Anyway, the rhododendron blooms were long gone.  In the fading American tradition of pragmatism, I’ll post mostly anachronistic photos here.  In the beleaguered tradition of full disclosure, I’ll fess up to the discrepancies with nods to old songs.