Finally, some new photos

This afternoon I found myself with nothing to do and a sunny day outside. It seemed like heading out with the camera was just the thing to do. I've been meaning to take a walk around my street because there are lots of pretty flowers all around. I took about 65 pictures but I'm only going to share a few now. This house up the street has lots of hibiscus out in front in all different colors. When I headed out the door that's what I had in mind. Unfortunately the rains of the past few weeks have wiped out the plants, but I took pictures of what was left.



Hibiscus come in a wide variety of colors. This is the most traditional one, the red.



The yellow is pretty common too. There are actually 2 types of yellow hibiscus. There's this one with the red center and there's one that's yellow all the way to the center.



Then there are one of my favorites, the pink. I love the dark red center.




Here is another type of pink one. If you compare the two you will see that the petals are thinner on this one then the previous one. Also, the pink isn't all the way through the petal. There are white edges that the other one doesn't have.



Then I found this one. It's red with pink edges and a yellow center thingee. I've never seen one like this. It is no doubt a cross I just wonder if it was an accident or on purpose.



Finally we have the orange one. This comes in a couple of varieties too. There are various shades of orange, red center, orange center, yellow thingee or red thingee. On this flower, if you look real close (or click to enlarge) you'll see it has a friend in the center. There's a bee in there. I tried to get him in the picture but he ran inside as I got close.

Well, that's all the flowers for right now. I have to go take the dogs to the vet.