Purple Tuesday (130/365)

“When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls, and the stars begin to flicker in the sky,…”

Mitchell Parish (1901-1993), U.S. songwriter. "Deep Purple," Robbins Music Corp. (1939). Music composed by Peter De Rose (1900-1953).

TIME:  8:07 PM
PLACE:  Front yard
SUBJECT:  Purple Salvia

I volunteered this morning to work the snack stand at school district’s Field Day.  We had chips, soda, water, Gatorade and sno-cones.  Guess what the majority of the kids wanted – sno-cones - labor intensive, rainbow sno-cones.  I wanted to take a photo of the sticky, syrupy chaos that ensued, but I was too busy making change for 50 cent sno-cones that always seemed to be paid for with $20 bills.  More importantly, I didn’t have my camera with me which kind of makes it harder to take the photo at all.  Therefore, I’m going with the old fallback shot…flowers!

Yellow And Purple (273/365)

 
“Color serenade
Of flowers and butterfly
Nature's quiet bliss”

#141 Haiku Orange Blossom-Yellow Butterfly, Dorothy (Alves) Holmes

TIME:  4:34 PM
PLACE:  Front yard
SUBJECT:  Yellow butterfly and purple salvia

I finally took the initiative and pulled out the dead, brown summer annuals from all of the pots early this afternoon.  My garden center had a 10 for $10 special going on – mums, pansies, kale, and cabbage plants were mix and match.  I picked up ten dollars worth along with a larger mum and six pack of pansies.  It was a gorgeous afternoon to be outside doing some gardening.  While I was replacing the plants in the pots, I could see that the butterflies and bees were enjoying the day as well.  They were really giving the salvia and sedum in the front flower beds a workout.