Janet at the Slmret blog has challenged me to post a photo of a flower for every letter in the alphabet. Just for the fun of it, I started out trying to see if I could do this and nine hours later, I’ve done it!!! Unfortunately, I can’t weed some of the letters down to one choice only, so instead of publishing them all today, I’m going to do one letter a day for 26 days, and some days I’ll publish more than one photo per letter.

Anyone want to play along? If so, please put a link to your post in my comments each day. HERE is my link for today. And also link to Cee’s blog, as she has decided to play along as well. HERE is her link for today.

So here we go with letter “A.” (I actually published this yesterday, but since Cee started publishing hers today, I’ll take a day’s vacation so we are on the same alphabetical page. 

“A” is for aloe bloom and anthurium.

This is the most unusual bloom on my aloe plant that I’ve ever seen.

Closeup

This is how the blooms usually look.

This anthurium has received an overlay from the high mineral content of our water. It makes for an interesting effect, though.

Here’s a more pristine set of blooms.