The Bells of November

We spent most of the day today attending a gun show in nearby Orange County at the fair grounds. We didn’t have much to blog about since there were no cameras allowed in the show. But it was a lot of fun and we plan on going to the next one in February.

I did take a picture of this nice flower in the garden out front yesterday, so I’ll put it up here and tell you a few words about it.

Cascading down from a stalk extending out of a low cabbage-like succulent, these petite red flowers attract late-autumn hummingbirds and look very pretty in the flowerbed. Each little bell is about 3/4 inch (2 cm) long and the stalks are about 3 feet (1 m) in length.

These have been blooming every November for several years now; click here to see a close-up photo I took a year ago.

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