Gorgeous! This weekend is the time for outdoor gathering and entertaining! Thanks for this great post, I just recently did a post on porches and how inviting they are. This fits into that same discussion. :o)

Love the great outdoors, the colors, the freedom. Great shots!

Looking forward to cocktails later (and meals all weekend) on this one:

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/look/outdoor-home-frank-alans-grill-with-a-view-025229

This is inspiring me to make some changes to my balcony.

It is much too early for me to photograph my fledgling plants on my balcony. We have had a much colder than normal spring and winds that are really wreaking havoc on my new plants. I hope the submission form remains open for a month or more to allow people living at high altitudes to submit photos too. I have shots of my balcony from last year, but they were already featured on the site.

1, 3, 6 and 8 are my idea of a heavenly balcony, love them! The one in Turkey has to be my favorite.

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/chicago/my-great-outdoors-2009/my-great-outdoors-daniels-denver-balcony-086147

My balcony from last year.

I can't wait to get back to Istanbul! Lovely.

Great ideas for patio settings - no reason to have a blank patio with these ideas!

augh, I want a bistro set so badly! But you know there's nowhere else to put the bikes, and I have a young cat so that would just be one more thing for her to precariously climb onto before falling to her death.

:(

Yay for Canada's representing! :D

(and Montreal, even better)

Merci!

That's so evil to show balconies in other countries! I would love to have one of those balconies in Brooklyn!
Hmm, maybe I should just move to another country...

Amazing to see my balcony featured again, in a new context. Thanks guys!