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A cluster of blooms on the hollyhock plant in the garden. #hollyhock #garden #pink

#pink #hollyhock #garden

Inside a yellow Hollyhock

#hollyhock #flower #yellow #backyard #garden

Pink Gladiola in my garden

#pink #gladiolus #flower #garden #backyard

Bee. Never could get a frontal shot so I gave up and figured this is as good as it's going to get.

#bee #busy

Winter

I know there is plenty of warm weather left, but it seems every mid to late August, I start feeling the morning chill. I'm retired now and I don't have to get out in the cold and snow but I still hate to think that it's coming.

#cold #winter #cowx

Crocosmia Closeup by Paul Sattler Via Flickr: Crocosmia in the garden.

#closeup #crocosmia #backyard #red

Emerging Red Gladiola

#gladiolus #flower #red #garden #backyard

Got a stalk of white glads. Such beautiful flowers.

#gladiolus #flower #white #beautiful #backyard #garden

No meteors

Was up at 4:30 but couldn't see any of the meteors. Too much light pollution around me. A few years back I did get to see a comet in the sky. That was an amazing experience.

#meteor #comet #no joy

Moon backlighting a single cloud. Meteor shower is supposed to be visible tonight. Hopefully there won't be any clouds then.

#Perseid #meteor #moon #cloud

Carolyn came home from the dollar store with these bulbs sometime back. I put them in the garden and waited to see what they looked like. It took quite a long time to finally bloom but I thought they were gorgeous.

I went outside the next day and was really surprised to see the blooms shriveled up. I was concerned that I had done something wrong but when I looked it up on the Internet, I found out that they do only bloom for one day. It takes a couple days, but a new bloom shows up to replace the old.

#shell flower #backyard #garden #Yellow #beautiful

Yesterday I was trying to get a shot of the Lantana blooms, when a bee graciously inserted itself into the shot. I had to handhold the micro lens, so with my shaky hands I wasn’t sure whether I could get it focused. Not perfect but I did get it fairly close.

#Lantana #backyard #garden #closeup #flower #colorful