Pink and blue

After a grey day, driving back and forth on the back end of town, running routine errands, I needed some colour. Leftover snow, scraped into heaps, oozing into mud puddles, covered by splattered street grunge, makes everything look so dreary!

So I turned to these forgotten photos from the summer of 2013: favourite flowers I hope never to find in my garden.

American brooklime. Grows in the mud, in ditches and along creeks. About 2 inches tall.

Hardhack, Spiraea douglasii. Another wetlands plant. Will form tall, dense thickets, will take over all available wet ground. Hard to hack down. Or through.

Ah. That's better.