Dinner Plate Hibiscus and a Cute Little Cross Stitch Inspector

This will be a quick post. I just wanted to show you this gorgeous dinner plate hibiscus in my garden. The blooms are six inches across.  I had purchased this beauty and another lighter pink one at a farmer’s market a number of years ago. This one started blooming a week ago and should continue blooming for another month or so. The second one has not begun blooming yet, and I may have to move it to a sunnier spot in the garden next spring.

In my last post, I mentioned that I enjoy photographing flowers, butterflies, and bugs which brings me to the next two photos. ;-). I was happily cross stitching one of my latest pieces when I flipped it over to finish off some stitches on the back. There I spotted this tiny red eyed critter crawling along obviously meticulously inspecting my work to see how neat the back was. I waited until he reached a clear space to get this shot. I have enlarged this image of the “inspector” who was tiny enough to completely fit on my thumbnail.  It looked like a micro mini praying mantis.

I let him continue to crawl around for a bit and then gently escorted him outside. Since it was raining, I placed it under some leaves on a plant on my front porch. . . my good deed for the day. :-)