First bloom on the Echinacea ‘Sombrero Tres Amigos’. I got it because it was supposed to be peachy coral but to me it looks red. Maybe as the season goes on it will change.
If you’re in my time zone and can find an eastern horizon, go look at the moon and Venus right now! So cool. Here’s a really bad picture of it. I’m in the car and that’s the best I can do but it looks much better.
Another one. Here I’ve altered the values to make them easier to see: Venus lower left below the tip of the house gable, the moon is that bright spot, Mars is up by the clump of clouds, and Jupiter is the bright one up there.
Not the greatest picture, right, using the neighbor’s house? But check it out: Venus on the left at the top of the tall tree, the moon in the wires, Mars at the very peak of the house roof, and then Jupiter pretty bright up and to the right. Mercury isn’t visible because of my horizon and Saturn was visible to me but way out of the frame and to the right. So here’s part of the planetary alignment anyway. Mars is hard to find in these phone pictures if you don’t have something pointing it out.