Poetic license

Now that our Hibiscus syriacus, or Rose-of Sharon, is in full bloom, I'm afraid that the flowers are much pinker than I remembered.  They are lovely, and more numeroous than ever, but not quite the shade of lavender that would match my eponymous hat.  However, I did notice that the spent blooms, which fall in profusion and are cigar-butt shaped, thus resembling nothing so much as the detritus from a stogie-lover's convention, do have a purplish cast.  Purplish-greyish.  At least they don't have that old-cigar stink. 

I thought I should put a link to Rose-of-Sharon under "free patterns," and so it is done.