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Just before we headed off to the airport Coleen took a few shots of the Bleeding Hearts just after it had rained. My flower shots were not good, but I loved the way the water droplets covered the leaves.
The days are getting shorter, the sunlight weaker. I sit outside and enjoy the delicate rays of sun on my face, like this still green leaf.
Die Tage werden kürzer, das Sonnenlicht schwächer. Ich sitze draußen und genieße die zarten Sonnenstrahlen auf meinem Gesicht, genauso wie dieses noch grüne Blatt.
“I wish I could stuff my mouth full of raindrops and fill my pockets full of snow. I wish I could trace the veins in a fallen leaf and the feel the wind pinch my nose.”
― Tahereh Mafi, "Shatter Me"
.... in my neighbour's garden.
Discovered via the "MyGardenAnswers" App that it belongs to a Purple Glory Tree or Tibouchina Grandiflora, a tree originally from Brasil.
There are 4 or 5 species of orange-colored globemallow flowers that can be found in Colorado. Based on the location, the overall appearance, and the shape of the leaves, I deduce that this is Small-leaf Globemallow (Sphaeralcea parvifolia).
There was a mass of grasses, vines and other plants on a slope at Colorado's Red Rock Park, but these spikes of bright orange flowers stood above the tangled greenery--a most delightful sight.