Garden Bloggers Bloom Day Ides of March and #SkywatchFriday

Today, a Skywatch Friday, hosted each Friday by Yogi has again collided with Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, hosted the 15th of each month by Carol at May Dream Gardens.

But why not?  Colors are to be celebrated, be they in the sky, or in flowers.   Skywatchers, enjoy my flowers - there are more sunrises to come at the end of this post.

Let's celebrate this colorful collision of memes.  Spring will be here in another week (well, to be exact, next Friday, March 21) and nature is already answering spring's call where I live near zone 5b Binghamton, New York.  To tide the skywatchers over, this sky, taken at sunrise yesterday.

This plant has been so patient.
I actually have outdoor flowers - two Lenten Roses, to be exact, have buds.  My white one, some years, blooms too early and is killed by returning winter weather.  This year, I hope we will see its blooms.

And then there is my reliable purple.

I can't remember what this is, but it is putting out buds.  I will kick myself when someone tells me.

Indoors, I am between Thanksgiving cactus blooms, but my one reliable Phalaenopsis orchid is reblooming still again.

A primrose I bought earlier in the winter had stopped blooming but now it's suddenly blooming again, to my delight.  Outside, in fact, I see primrose plants, but no bloom buds have shown up yet.

It got into the 60's today, and I took some of my overwintering plants out.  One was this two year old poinsettia.  It looks terrible, but look - it is trying to put out a white leaf!

As for the sunrises, I took this picture on March 13.

And one day later, almost to the minute, and at the exact same spot, the sun rose again.

If you enjoyed what I offer, come back next month for even more beauty, as I'll also be participating in Blogging from A to Z.  Garden Bloggers Bloom Day will fall on "M" day which is also my Monday music post.  So, stay tuned!