And even more flowers! 04-14-21

A bit cooler today, but still the flowers bloom.  We are trying to walk a little earlier, by 9am, in preparation for the summer temps when we will have to walk about 7am to avoid the heat.  I don't tolerate it as well as I once did, but KoKo doesn't seem to mind.  The prediction for the weekend is in the mid to upper 80s, but it was only 65F today and low 50s overnight.  

These pink flowers popping up in neglected lawns are Mexican primroses, not related to the primroses one finds at the nursery.  They are very invasive , which is obvious when one sees them growing in downwind yards where they are not wanted.  But they are very delicate and a lovely pale pink.  They look a bit like giant crocus. 

Mexican primrose

On Brian Street there is a large patch of morning glory vines that have been there for years.  Someone cuts them back occasionally, but they generally just vine all over the place.  They have recently worked their way under a hedge and a few a blooming in the lawn!  The lawn doesn't get mowed very often, or very well! 

Morning Glory 

They are much deeper blue than this, but this is the best my phone camera will do. 

As the day wears on the blue fades to pink and finally to almost white before the blossom shrivels at night.  I have not previously observed both blue and pink blossoms at the same time of day.  Don't know why this is so. 

The lobed leaves are very attractive and generally rather darker than this. 

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