Daily Archives: July 13, 2013

Sunset Colors

Sunset Colors

Sunset Colors

It’s been overcast all day after a mostly rainy day yesterday. This evening, however, the light turned the most remarkable color. It’s hard to describe what it was like, but later in the day, as the sun started to set, the light out our back windows was the most orangy green I’ve ever seen. It was green because it’s been a very wet summer so far and everything is so lush. But the light had an orangy, pink tinge to it that was absolutely wonderful over that lush green. I ran to get my camera but much of the light had gone by the time I got outside. This picture is looking nearly straight up with a very wide angle lens, and shows the source of the colored light, reflecting off the clouds. It doesn’t come close to doing it justice, so we’ll just have to remember how beautiful it was, although this photo is a small reminder.

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Lilium ‘Stargazer’ (The Stargazer Lily)

Lilium 'Stargazer' (The Stargazer Lily)

Lilium ‘Stargazer’ (The Stargazer Lily)

We have day lilies (Hemerocallis), tiger lilies (Lilium lancifolium), and a few Asiatic lilies in our yard and they are all beautiful in their way. They are mostly orange, although we have a few yellow day lilies. Although they were formerly considered to be in the same family as lilies, day lilies are not even in the same order any more. Anyway, I group them together in my mind, because they have somewhat similar flowers and of course the names are a link.

This flower, though, stands alone (in our yard, anyway). It is so different in terms of color that it seems less like the other true lilies than do the day lilies. It’s currently growing in a pot but we’ll be planting it when we get a chance. At least that’s the theory. We really need a small patch of these, not just one, but one thing at a time.

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