Flowers and the like

I was checking through my archives and I found a post I'd written but hadn't published - don't know why but I probably thought you'd all be bored with Colonia. Anyway, being a thrifty sort of person I can't let my good work go to waste so here it is.
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Originally written on June 1st 2006.

One of the lovely things about Colonia is the way trees and shrubs grow all over the town. Even though it's the end of autumn, going into winter here, things were still in flower.

So here we have Cocoa beans still on the trees...




An orange tree with oranges...




Convolvulus and Cacti...




Mossy trees. I think the moss is a parasite but the effect is lovely...




This is the most common sight, either in this dark red or a lighter pink colour...



...the trunks are twisted together to support the flowering top and just about every street has two or three. In fact one house we saw had three of these plants to itself.


And I couldn't resist this combination...



There isn't a lot of colour here in Buenos Aires so this makes such a nice change.