Purple Passion

Today was a l-o-n-g day. It started out with my being screamed at by a parent while I was working the valet line at school (never a good way to start the day). I got in a walk at the beach, which was fantastic. Then got some stuff at home, picked up Erin, got haircuts, and got home only to realize that I hadn't taken a picture today. Oops. Of course, I'd thought about taking the camera both on my beach walk and to Erin's haircut, but neither happened. So, I grabbed it when we got home and headed out to the back yard to see what I could capture. There were pretty slim pickin's. In fact, I'm starting to think that our watering system has some issues, because we have some mighty dry looking stuff out there. But among the dry, brown ick I found this beauty. I love these (and am blanking on the name right now), and hope you do too, because when spring arrive in full force and the yard is full of these, I'll no doubt be taking more pictures of them. For now, it's just this one lone flower, but I'll take it!