Warm Weather... and Flowers!
I've got a backlog of things to blog about, starting from a weekend trip this past weekend to finishing up blogging about the previous weekend's trip, to other stuff that happened 7-10 days ago, to stuff I've been meaning to write about since well before then. But I'm going interrupt my regularly schedule blogging to share... flowers!
It's surprisingly warm out today. It was already 75° when I broke for lunch at 1pm, and the weather forecast says it'll get up to 77° F (25° C) by mid-afternoon. While I was outside marveling at this warm weather- though it's frankly normal for this time of April, we've had cool and rainy weather for several weeks- I spotted these flowers in bloom outside our building. Likely it's all that rain we've had, coupled with it now being warm, that's led them to bloom.
In the picture above are California Poppies, the orange flowers that are our state flower, and... uh... Bougainvilleas? Fuchsias? IDK. And, unhelpfully, doing a google image search for "purple flower with 5 petals" turns up hundreds of results that are all described as "Purple flower with 5 petals → PURCHASE NOW." 🤣
Having beautiful flowers in our garden is not really unusual. One of the reasons we bought this house years ago is because of the beautiful landscaping and gardening around it. It's just that the past few months of drear have made blooms a rare sight. Thus it's a pleasant surprise now to be reminded of the beauty around us.
In beauty I walk... even if just between the garage and front door. 😂
It's surprisingly warm out today. It was already 75° when I broke for lunch at 1pm, and the weather forecast says it'll get up to 77° F (25° C) by mid-afternoon. While I was outside marveling at this warm weather- though it's frankly normal for this time of April, we've had cool and rainy weather for several weeks- I spotted these flowers in bloom outside our building. Likely it's all that rain we've had, coupled with it now being warm, that's led them to bloom.
In the picture above are California Poppies, the orange flowers that are our state flower, and... uh... Bougainvilleas? Fuchsias? IDK. And, unhelpfully, doing a google image search for "purple flower with 5 petals" turns up hundreds of results that are all described as "Purple flower with 5 petals → PURCHASE NOW." 🤣
Having beautiful flowers in our garden is not really unusual. One of the reasons we bought this house years ago is because of the beautiful landscaping and gardening around it. It's just that the past few months of drear have made blooms a rare sight. Thus it's a pleasant surprise now to be reminded of the beauty around us.
In beauty I walk... even if just between the garage and front door. 😂