The color called “lilac” in CSS is a light purple, with equal amounts of red and blue. (The buds on this bush were a magenta, with a good deal more red than blue.) Eleven days later, this bush was almost done for the year. It looked like the flowers had indeed been lilac when fully open and were fading to lavender and then white.
Red maples flower
and greet returning warmth with
rubies in the sky.
Any bee could set U straight,
“Dandelions are just great.
Where these yellow flowers thrive,
I get nectar for my hive.”
Any bee could let U know,
“Just relax and let them grow.”
Red, yellow, and green
did not tell the whole story.
Now, five years later …
Warmth and light transform
dark sausage to bright flowers.
Magnolia opens.
Glow ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #367
Flowers first
when cherry trees wake.
Leaves later.
“Bracts” say botanists.
“Those red things are not petals.”
I just call them leaves.
Ah, such a cheery yellow graces the month of September. Alas, ragweed flowers out of sight at the same time, giving goldenrod a bad rep among some people with hay fever. While ragweed sheds pollen to the whims of the wind, goldenrod holds pollen that will be picked up and transported by insect pollinators. You’re not likely to inhale any goldenrod pollen unless a bee crawls up your nose.
From a distant sun,
some light finds another sun
and can shine again.
Glowing yellow like the sun,
spider waits for prey to come.
double or single
“Rose of Sharon” or “Althea”
sunny or cloudy
When they bloom,
each day is sunny.
Food’s good too.
Mellow Curmudgeon 