Violet to magenta

And the rest of the purples, before I go on to other topics:

Creeping Charlie, Glechoma hederacea. Aka ground-ivy, run-away-robin, etc.

Creeping Charlie loves lawns.  In many places it is considered an invasive weed, but I welcome it. While I fight the cat's-ear, because it kills everything around it, and then spreads seeds to the neighbour's yard, Creeping Charlie blends in, stays put, and provides food for assorted critters. And the flowers are interesting.

Small magenta flowers, unidentified.

Border planting.

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Tres flores más, antes de pasar a otras temas:

La hiedra terrestre, Glechoma hederacea crece entre el césped. Muchas veces se considera como una hierba mala, invasiva, pero a mí me gusta. No mata a otras plantas, no se extiende a los terrenos de los vecinos, proveen alimento y albergue para muchos insectos, y las flores, muy pequeñas, son interesantes. 

No sé como se llaman las otras dos flores. Las sembró mi vecina.

Half opened

Clematis bud

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Botón de clemátide, medio abierto.

Lilac to purple

A few flowers from around my block.

Lilac. It seems everybody here has a lilac bush. The streets are perfumed.

Unidentified flowers growing in a great mound by a driveway. Beautiful, even the dying ones in the centre.

I had to sit on the curb for this one. A tiny, tiny vetch, growing in cracks in the cement.

Zooming in.

Vetches can be differentiated from most of the other members of Fabaceae by the fact that the terminal leaflet of each set of leaves is actually a tendril. (Islandnature.ca)

Purple iris

Zooming in. A "come hither" wave for pollinators. The yellow pollen banks remind me of the opalescent nudibranch.

Remembering sunshine

Another grey and foggy day. At least it has stopped raining, for the moment. Days like this, it's good to find a photo or two from sunnier times.

This one is from last September, in Bear Creek Park.

Tibouchina, aka Glory bush, Princess flower.

And one more week until our earth relents and starts to bring our northlands around to face the sun again.

(That's an awfully long way to say "the winter solstice", isn't it?)

Warm fuzzies

Bee and flowers in the sunshine.

Moving to the next stem up . . .

I can't identify this plant. Can you? Is it a weed, or a garden escapee?