I search my city for things to take pictures of and then when walking the dogs yesterday I came across this flowering tree right in my own backyard…It’s time for me to look ‘close to home’ and maybe forget the outside world for awhile. This Hibiscus was right by my back door.. So perhaps the saying ‘the grass is not greener on the other side’ is true. However,my dogs are convinced that any grass away from ours is better… 
5 Comments
July 3, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Gaye,
Hibiscus is our national flower. This pink one looks different from those over here.
July 3, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Chrisy,
) The ones on this Hibiscus tree are the prettiest, most delicate pink I’ve ever seen.
Thanks ! We have many varieties of Hibiscus here and they’re all beautiful. This one is on a tree at the corner of my house. Many others are bigger and have a big variety of beautiful colors. I’ll have to get pictures of some others soon. I’ll bet most of our foliage is similar. Our state flower is the Orange Blossom. (I just learned that
July 3, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Beautiful image Gaye, the color and comp are wonderful, well done !!
July 3, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Bernie, you are so nice to comment! We have these Hibiscus all over our area so I must get more of them….and the variety of colors is gorgeous. So my work is cut out for me
July 5, 2008 at 10:18 am
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