September 28: Gaura, rainy morning

[neverspent]

Sunday morning, I took a few minutes and trekked down to where I know some gaura grows. I'd been seeing it along the roadsides for a couple of weeks. It's unusual for an autumn flower: the blossoms are delicate looking, white, turning pink when they fade. But it's deceptively tough, growing when the days get shorter and the weather is dry and the ground hard. It springs up in tall, shrubby stands with the blossoms on the ends of the stems, all together giving the impression of a white-pink cloud in the brush.



It was a rainy morning, with more dark clouds in the west, which was a treat. (More than I knew. When I returned to the city, I found it hadn't rained here at all, and it still hasn't. Dry as a bone, getting drier.) There were spiderwebs in the grass, full of bead-like drops, and some gloriously sturdy-looking mushrooms as well as a lot of golden aster.

Comments

[shinsetsu]

That mushroom looks like a nice egg! And I love the diamonds on the spider web. :)

[neverspent]

I thought of an egg when I saw that mushroom too! Emu egg, maybe, as it was quite large. :)