Late June, early July in Huntsville is, to say the least, colorful. Lots of sun coupled with goodly amounts of rain results in crepe myrtle blooms throughout the city. Here's a picture of our house that I took last week with our crepe myrtle in full bloom. Many of the streets in town are lined with crepe myrtle of varying colors.

OK, now I want to talk about AT&T, everybody's favorite telephone company. While we use cell phones for almost everything, we do have a land line for a couple of, we think, good reasons. But I wanted the least expensive connection possible. When I got my bill last month ($64.82) I decided to do some more trimming. After a 20+ minute phone conversation with an AT&T representative, I felt that I had what I wanted. Then this month's bill arrived on Thursday. $133.35. Yep, more than double. When I got the rep yesterday, my first comment was that I had a little trepidation about talking to AT&T again. I wasn't looking forward to another 100% increase in my phone bill. I think we got it straightened out. The new bill is $43.35. That still is a lot for a phone that we use for incoming calls only, robo calls and politicians. Whatever.