Oleander

The garden doesn’t have many flowers left now, after all the heat, but our oleander plants are flourishing.

This morning I took my mother back to the hospital for another X-ray of her broken shoulder. We talked to a friendly surgeon who didn’t really like the way her bones are (not) healing, but he agreed to leave them alone and not operate the shoulder. 
“If it was my own mother, I would decide against surgery, too”, he said. 

We’ll need to go back for the next check in a week, though.