A Zalea

Here’s a pink azalea, just to let you know that not all my flowers are white.

Golden leaves are falling

The scrape, scrape of raking is ratting down the street. The first leaves are turning, mostly brown so far, but here’s a nice yellow leaf caught in the obliging branches of a bare azalea. And the leaf bag count is two and rising.

Cinco de flores

Flowers, flowers, flowers, flowers, flowers, What more is there to say?

Azalea leaves

It was so beautiful and warm today, all I want to do is show off more pretty leaves. Two little clumps of azalea. In the spring, one has white flowers and the other has pink. Now their leaves are turning different colors, in pretty mottled clumps.

Fruits?

Ah, spring! Nothing but a parade of flowers, like these azaleas. And maybe even some fruit.

Syrphid fly?

Here’s some more flowers the bees are visiting. Not to mention another example of why the violets get free rein in my yard: they look nice next to the azaleas. Yesterday I thought I saw a bumblebee, but its buzz had that whiny fly quality. Probably a syrphid fly; they look a lot like bees […]