Wednesday Vignettes: Pure Gold

The skies are cloudy today but there's no rain in sight.  For this week's Wednesday Vignette, the meme hosted by Anna of Flutter & Hum, I have a couple of photos taken under sunnier skies.

The first was taken from my bedroom window looking out across the front garden late last week after the rain had stopped.  It's a view I've shown before but the focus of this shot is the color echo created by the yellow succulent flower in the hanging basket in the foreground and the bright gold of the shrub in the middle background.

I believe the yellow flowering plant in the hanging basket is a Kalanchoe of some type.  The golden shrub is Duranta erecta 'Gold Mound'.  At least that's the name under which it was sold.  It's much taller than the 3 feet originally projected by the grower.

The second photo - or second and third photos as I was unable to pick just one of the five I snapped - shows a Monarch butterfly resting on the bright yellow foliage of Coleonema pulchellum 'Sunset Gold'.

Butterflies don't usually allow me to get anywhere near this close.  There was a scattering of pale pink flowers on the Coleonema in late December when this photo was taken but I've never heard the plant identified as one attractive to butterflies so I'm not sure why it was hanging about.

Western Monarchs generally winter in San Diego or Santa Cruz so it seems I'm not the only one late to the garden party.  I hope she (or he) made it to the proper destination.

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