Category Archives: Flowers

Even on the grey and cloudy days (which seem to be the only kind we’ve had for weeks) the wide array of colors over here can always bring a smile.

That’s probably going to be needed tomorrow and the rest of the week. Remember, tomorrow’s Tuesday, or in this case, Monday^2. It’s almost not worth having a three-day weekend. Almost!

Be good out there, keep smiling, and be kind. Everyone else is in the same boat and you don’t know what they’re going through, so cut people some slack.

I might have let this one get past its prime by a day or two, but I’ve been admiring it every day when I go out to the yard.

Don’t worry, there’s another one coming down there, we’ll see if it shows the same pattern and coloration.

This one was spectacular, yellow in the center, pink and purple at the edges, with a subtle gradient from one to the other.

There’s also a lot of very fine detail in the petals, darker purple lines in the pale gold.

And all of those pistels in the middle! The bees have had a field day with these, which is a GOOD thing.

The iceplant is in bloom. As always, they’re spectacular.

How many there are depends on your perspective.

And how close you are.

And how zoomed in you are.

A pair of rose buds made me think about “potential” a few days ago. Now that potential is coming to fruition.

The roses go from buds filled with potential to gloriously beautiful flowers just by existing, although I’m sure there’s more to it that behind the scenes in the operation of the Universe. For you and I, the potential’s a little harder to conver to glory and beauty.

If only it was as easy as the roses make it seem.

This plant went off all of a sudden and there were seven bright pink and white flowers with another threatening to pop.

As with the old kid’s joke, these were “broses” – they had “B”s in them!

Yesterday I looked back on the last ten years of “We Love The Stars Too Fondly” and the last year in particular. Today, let’s look to the future.

I saw these when I went out to go to the grocery store today and my immediate first thought was that they symbolized “potential” to me. You know it’s there, it’s a rose bush, it’s produced spectacular flowers in the past. But now, with these two buds just starting to swell and burst with color, you can get that first glimpse of the true potential there.

Let’s hope the upcoming year(s) are also like that.

I was out re-filling the hummingbird feeders and there was something about the late afternoon light that really drew my attention to the big tree in the back yard.

A couple months ago this tree was unexpectedly almost leafless, which is unusual. Possibly caused by the drought and super dry summer, but it’s come back strong.

The bougainvillea bush back there was also surprisingly barren in mid February. It has come back a bit, but nowhere near as well as the big tree has. It’s at maybe 50% to 60% of normal. You can still see the gas meter back under there. (When we moved in it took me a major search to figure out where that meter was hidden because of how full and lush this bush was. Not now!) We’ll see what more sun does for it, as long as I keep it watered.