Dotted Very Red

Hey Harold!

The first one looks a little like foxglove. Did it have multiple flowers along a tall stalk?

The second one looks like hibiscus, but it's missing a central cluster of anthers - long, thin male reproductive organs, usually yellow.

BUT - I'm probably wrong on both counts.

No, Patrick, as usual you are right, at least with the foxglove.

I don't know about the red one, the wife thought it might have been Dianthesis. It appears very similar in other web images.

Gee. Sounds rough. Wanna trade jobs? Just kidding. You've had more than your fair share of hard jobs. Glad you are enjoying it and it doesn't seem to feel too much like work! I'm burnt out by thursdays... which are my fridays. LOL. Takes me all of Friday- Sunday to recover for Monday. Only a couple more weeks though til I'm done in August!

I'm heading to K-zoo for Am Worlds for disc golf, then chillin til the end of the month... no work. No plans. Staying in my empty house and not tellin people when I'm coming in town minus one chick I haven't talked to or heard from in three years.

Enjoy those fireworks on Hood. I might watch some over the Mississippi up here!

Hi again -

I looked at a couple Google images and I agree that it looks like Dianthus. But I'm still puzzled by the lack of anthers - perhaps a castrated Dianthus?

A little oddity, I guess. There are a ton of others in the yard, of all different colors, they all lack the anthers.

Hotter up the mountain today, than down here in the valleys. The haze caused by the wildfires in northern Cali are a bummer, too, which is part of whats causing the inversion.