Red Flowers

I love my Veteran's Honor rose, it is a beautiful deep red color with velvety petals. Unfortunately I have a hard time getting a good picture of it that shows off its true color. Most of the time it will look dark pink instead of really and truly red, as shown below.


I have the same trouble taking pictures of my red crepe myrtles. I guess it has to do with the light reflecting off of them and the conditions have to be just right for me to get a good shot with my point-and-shoot.

Guests

When I got home from work today, Quickbeam and I went outside with our camera to see what we could find. We took some pictures of a new mushroom that looked like a doppler radar tower that appeared in the backyard.



We snapped a couple of pictures of my rain lily that *finally* started blooming.

We also got a picture of the Betty Corning clematis that is blooming.

Then I decided to go over to the crepe myrtle tree and get a picture of its new blooms.

When I got close to it, this is what I found:

There was a bird there that took off as soon as I got close. I didn't see any eggs inside, so I'm hoping I didn't scare it off. It makes me happy to know that it has made a home in our tree. I'll be keeping an eye out for it.