alliums at night

And here they are, stretching away into the night in the front yard ... and remarkably challenging, I might add, to take a nighttime photo that does them any kind of justice, it turns out, once one's battled with the lights along the path to the front door, and the flash/no flash dilemma of one's iPhone (and yes, it would have been better to come inside and fetch a real camera, but I didn't), and so on.  But they are very beautiful ...