While I was mowing my yard for the last time of the season yesterday, I discovered that my camellia plant is blooming. I was going to say how shocked I was that I never posted about it before, but I couldn’t find THESE two POSTS about it because they weren’t (until now) in the “Gardening” category, and because I was searching for the word “camillia”. Firefox’s spelling checker solved the mystery.
Anyway, I’m very excited my camellia is blooming. If there are no terrible freezes while my family is here, I will have beautiful pink flowers for the duration of their visit. I may even cut some flowers and bring them in. Camellias make nice floated flowers.
Dang, I uploaded the pictures before I changed their file names. Now they’re misspelled for eternity. Or until the end of the internet.
Oh, the internet will be here loooong after the end of time.
That first photo is very nice – the dying leaves of autumn and the fresh pink of new blooms. There’s a country song in there somewhere.
Has Lloyd been listening to a lot of Johnny Cash lately?
They are gorgeous! The pink roses that line our driveway bloom pretty much year round, but they are not so intense as your camellia blooms and hence just look like sickly late-fall attempts to recapture lost springs (another song lyric looming in there somewhere, I fear)