That last post is really kind of a downer topic for a Saturday morning, especially after a fun Friday. Sorry about that. Here's a picture of pretty flowers to lighten the mood:
These are on some tall bushes outside our back door, growing around the base of some pine trees that look like fifty-foot mutant bonsai. The flowers were identified as a rose of somebody or another, and when they flower, they don't hold back. Below the fold is another picture, showing a little more of the context.
Pretty!
And now, off to run errands...
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Rose of Sharon, I'm pretty sure. We have a white one going like crazy outside our back door at the moment. Yours look beautiful -- congrats!
Chad,
It is good to see that there are other physicist-bloggers out there who are not shy to post pictures of flowers! Next, you'll be posting about visits to farmer's markets, riding your bike, and busrides.
Hurrah!
-cvj
Yep, Rose of Sharon. There are different varieties -- my Mom has one much like yours (maybe pinker), also a shorter one with a double flower, white with red markings. The seed pods I've seen are round. They dry and split into sections to scatter the seeds.