Bougainvillea

I saw it — it was there! Alive in my friend’s photograph — a burst of magenta red, with tiny real flowers at the center of the luminous bracts.
A few green leaves, oval, sometimes slightly pointed; woody and thorny branches, perfect for climbing the sun-warmed plaster wall.
This image was taken on August 11, 2023, on the Greek island of Patmos by my friend Cesare Rotondo, a Milanese manager, photographer, and jazz musician of rare talent.