Unexpected surprise

This is one of the oddest flowers I have come across in my garden. It showed up 5 or 6 years ago. I'm not sure what it is, but it blooms once a year and is this brilliant red color. To me, it looks like a fireworks flower.

"Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower." 
~ Hans Christian Andersen

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The price you pay

This window, framed with bougainvillea and roses, caught my eye the other day. I thought, how pretty the view out that window is going to be when the bougainvillea is in full bloom.

It's also going to be the safest window in the neighborhood. Bougainvillea is sometimes planted as a security feature. Between the rose thorns and the long bougainvillea thorns, no one is likely to try to pass this way!

"The most beautiful flowers have the sharpest thorns."
~ Samantha Goodwin

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It's bloomin' Spring!

Spring is my favorite time of the year. I like looking for blossoms and color. From this cactus bloom that I happened upon, to the weeds "blooming" in the riverbed, Spring is here!

�It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.�
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

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