I so often post photos of PINK flowers on PINK Saturday that I feel a bit like a broken record. But I do have to admit that I just love finding different shades of PINK, and really every other color in Nature. The variations even within a plant are endless and so breath-taking and then if you add into those, all of the variations of PINK flowers in the world...well, the mind just reels.
So, hoping not to sound like a broken record, and begging you to consider that the winter, gray, white and otherwise colorless days are drawing nigh, I am going to share with you all of the different PINK florals I have photographed in the San Francisco Bay Area this week. Most of my photos were taken today at the San Francisco Zoo. They have different varieties of flowers around every corner and as the animals were a bit inactive today...well, I snapped them all. The problem is that I snapped pictures of our adventure in the zoo as well which I will have to share later.
I won't have names for all of them, but I do believe that the specimen above is a Chokecherry. It is the flower/seed of the Chokecherry tree. The little PINK flutteries are very similar in texture to the bougainvillea flowers, but these are smaller with a seed inside (the bougainvillea flower may also contain a see, but I don't know this for certain). When these flutteries dry, they become like rice paper and fall to the ground in a PINK mound.
This is another specimen that I can identify. This is a close-up photo of a single flower on the Hydrangea plant.
Perhaps I should have named my blog "Other People's Flowers" for the very reason that I take so many pictures of other people's flowers. My Mother-In-law grew the above lovelies. When I expressed an interest in them, she told me the name, which I promptly forgot, and then told me that I could probably grow these in New York if I brought them in during the winter. I got a good laugh out of that suggestion. My blog would need to be named "Other People's Flowers" for the second reason; the reason being that I DO NOT grow my own flowers but ingratiate myself with all the neighbors so I can enjoy theirs. Don't get me wrong, my heart is willing, but I am usually so busy doing one of my many crafts that I never get around to gardening AND I would have to dig beds before I could plant ANYthing as our soil is really mainly rocks.
I think this one must be related to the artichoke family; its structure is so similar to the artichoke. Does anyone know?
I don't think that the above plant is a flower per se, but it definitely had a PINK tinge to its leaves which I thought was beautiful.
We are definitely getting to the end now, so hang on a little bit longer.
Here is the thing. I was looking for different PINK flowers, but there were flowers in many other colors as well whose photos I took as well. I have some orange and purple selections I will have to share on another day.
Apparently you can also find different kinds of PINK flowers in the mall for only $7.80. I think the shop was called 21, if you are interested. It contained a LOT of PINK baubles actually, and I must admit, I couldn't resist.
And that is that is that for this week.
If you are interested in more PINK Saturday fun, please visit Beverly at How Sweet the Sound for a full list of participants.
If you are interested in reading more about our adventures in San Francisco, please take time to look at the last two weeks posts. We are leaving the Bay Area on Monday to begin our journey home and are excited to share with you as much as we can of our cross country road trip! So please stay tuned! Two kids, two adults and a mid-sized sedan, sounds like fun to me (also like the title to a song perhaps)!
