I hope you enter this one in the photo contest. I would vote for it.
Then I looked at last year's photo, which was pretty and got 30 thumbs up, and realized how much more you got out of your subject this year!
Would that be a "silk purse from a sow's ear"?

Thank you, Diana. Other than the top flower being slightly out of focus, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. It is a bit of a mystery to me why some photos bring on the clicks and others don't, but I aim to please and I enjoy connecting with other people here.

I have been watching and waiting for these flowers, which take a while to open. This is actually a different plant from the Cotyledon flower picture I took last year, though you wouldn't necessarily know it from the flowers alone.



The leaves are a different shape (like 1/5 the width). Each of the variants of this species seems to flower at a different time of year (consistently), which is another difference. A plus, in my opinion. For me and the hummingbirds.

That whole plant photo is pretty cool looking too.
for the hummingbirds.

A lovely picture of a lovely plant/bloom with a kinda funny name. 🐷

Thank you. The pig's ear name works better for some varieties of this plant than others... like this one maybe.



Those leaves are sort of piggy, I guess. The leaves on the one in the original flower picture remind me more of fingers (and not pig fingers) than any sort of ear. They have a curved red edge right where the fingernail would be, to enhance the look.