Pink And Pretty

If you were a bee, would this flower be attractive to you? Probably. It's odd that these flowers would just be coming out now, given that it's the middle of October. But this is Florida, and that's just the way things are around here. These blossoms are from a silk floss tree, which you have to admit is a weird name for a tree. But after the flower dies, and the seed pod matures, it opens up and releases a ball of silk-like threads that help to disperse the seeds. It looks more like cotton than silk to me, but they didn't ask me before they named this particular tree.