Flowers and a Freeze
I wore two sweatshirts and a jacket over my jeans on my walk tonight as it was very windy and cold. I found a few flowers to photograph along the way. I believe this tree in bloom is a Red Buckeye. Here are the tree blossoms from a closer view. The next three photos are flowers and plants in a flower bed at the park. While I was photographing the flowers above, one of the fellows who works for our local parks and recreation department showed up. He brought long sheets to cover the flowers in the beds. The weather man is predicting a hard freeze for us here tonight with temperatures at 31 degrees or perhaps colder. The flowers must be covered to keep the freeze from killing them. You can see the parks and recreation employee in the photo below getting ready to cover the flowers. Walking through the neighborhood on the way home, I saw these pretty hanging pots of flowers next to this white fence. There is a peony bush on the ground below the hanging pots. The peony bush has buds ...