Flowers
The nocturnal cactus flower
Walking our son’s dog in San Diego, I came across this cactus flower, backlit by the morning sun. Just a lucky snapshot, though I carried my good camera (Sony A7R IV). Peruvian apple cactus (Cereus Peruvianus). No wonder it’s a morning shot; it turns out the flower blooms during one night and shrivels up the following day.
Painterly monkey flowers
I saw these curbside a country road in San Diego country, CA. The two centimeter long wildflowers were almost impossible to shoot well. Fascinating in their painterly appearance. Orange bush monkey flower. Click on photos below for larger images (and then scroll sideways).
Goldflame Honeysuckle from our garden in Bethesda, Maryland.
Lighting up the landscape in San Diego, CA.
Chicory, a wildflower of the dandelion family. Cultivated in harsh times for food substitutes, incl. coffee. Laurel Highlands, western Pennsylvania.
"Hurry, Noah's Ark is coming for you - can squeeze in two more!". San Diego, CA.
Succulent in our son's garden, San Diego, CA. Dew and low morning sun makes a difference.
Flower along a neighborhood road in San Diego, CA.
Cape on. In the barber's chair. Ready for a hair cut. San Diego.
San Diego is an arid place, but when it blooms, it blooms in all colors and shapes literaly everywhere.
Another San Diego flower. This one well cared for in a flower enthusiast's showy garden.
When the flowers are gone. Bethesda, Maryland.
Roadside cactus flower. I call it "Gollum's hand". San Diego.